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Record of the expedition to Abyssinia Compiled by order of the Secretary of State for War by Maj Trevenen J Holland and Cpt Henry M Hozier under the direction of Col Sir Henry James etc London: HMSO, 1870 2 vols
Précis of information obtained by the British mission to Abyssinia (March to June 1879) Lt-Col F R Wingate, Director of Military Intelligence, Egyptian Army and Cpt Count Gleichen, Intelligence Division, War Office London: War Office, Intelligence Division, 1897 Secret
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with 3 maps Skeleton map of Abyssinia and Somaliland to illustrate the report of the mission ... 1:4,000,000 Road sketch of the route followed between Zaila and Addis Ababa: sheet 3 - Lake Chercher to Addis Ababa 1:250,000 Sketch map of Addis Ababa and neighbourhood 1:63360
Correspondence showing the measures taken by the Syuds of Tatta in Sind to reduce the expenses of their birth, marriage and funeral ceremonies. Forwarded to Government by Sir H B E Frere, Commissioner in Sind. Bombay: Education Society's Press, 1855-59
A history of Sind, embracing the period from AD 710 to AD 1590; written in Persian at the close of the sixteenth century by Mahomed Masoom; and translated into English in the year 1846 by Cpt George Grenville Malet ...assisted by Pe er Mahomed. Bombay: Education Society's Press, 1855-59
Sketch of the judicial administration of the province of Sind, when under the Talpoor dynasty, and of its progress since the conquest to the present period by James Gibbs, Judicial Assistant to the Commissioner in Sind. Bombay: Education Society's Press, 1855-59