'Work by Cavalry sketching case.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:
Traverse covering a 280-mile route from Malka Sala on the southern Abyssinia border south-westwards to Eil Wak and then northwards to Banissa to a width of approximately 4 miles. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, roads and tracks, settlements, wells, place names and survey sight lines, a...
Memorandum by H.R. Davies, Major, General Staff Officer, North China Command addressed to section M.O.3(D) War Office, covering the despatch of two maps relevant to the compilation of the War Office map of the Province of An-hui [安徽].
Scope & Content:
The two maps were Mat.China. 311. and Mat.China. 312. The War Office ledger entry for 311 bears the annotation 'Destroyed on recommendation from draftsman'.
'View North and East from Jonono Plateau from a Sketch by Lt Headlam York & Lancaster Regt'. Signed by 'T H B Forster D[eputy].A[ssistant].A[djutant].G[eneral]. 7.5.1900'.
Scope & Content:
Trace of a panoramic field sketch. Topographic features are annotated.
‘Sketch II’ ‘B. Gen. G. Pereira’s routes from Tsangchow [滄州] to Chengting (Fu) [正定府] & Taiyüan [太原] to Pingyangfu [平陽府]. Feb. to March 1921. being part of his journey from Peking [北京] to Lhasa [拉薩].’ Sheet 'A'.
Scope & Content:
Shows two separate parts of the route in southern Chihli [直隸] and Shansi [山西] provinces respectively. Includes a table of mileage for the journey in Shansi.
‘Sketches XXI, XXII(a), XXII(b) & XXIII.’ ‘B. Gen. G. Pereira’s route from Chao-T’ung Hsien [昭通縣] to Ma-Yi-Ssu (Ping-Yi-Ch’ang) [unidentified] & down the Yangtze [揚子] (Chin-sha Chiang [金沙江]) from Ma-Yi-Ssu to Sui Fu [敘府]. April 1923.’ Sheet 'R'.
Scope & Content:
Covers the route northwards from Chaotung, Yunnan (雲南), to Sui Fu, Szechwan (四川), by way of Laoyatan (老鴉嘆) and Fukwan (now Suikiang (綏江)), both in Yunnan (雲南), including excursions from Chaotung to visit the Miao inhabitants at Shih-men-k'an (石門坎), and to Ta-ching-pa (unidentified) on the east ba...