Ta-peng-chiang. Ferry over the Me-kong on the Wei-yuan - Kun-lung route. From the left bank looking down river. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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View downriver, with a settlement of houses on the riverbank on the far side above the ferry landing (where a large group of porters are gathered at the water's edge. Behind the steep wooded hillside rises from the river.
'Diary of a Tour in the Persian Gulf and in Turkish Arabia December 1906, by Lieutenant-Colonel Malleson Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch, Division of the Chief of the Staff.'
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The diary, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid Malleson, comprises daily entries and accounts of his travels from 3 to 29 December 1906. The diary commences on his arrival at sea off Maskat [Muscat] before recounting the journey to Basra via Bushire and Koweit [Kuwait] and on to Baghdad, Bab...
Report on the reconnaissance of northern Somali-land, February to November 1891. By Cpt H G C Swayne, Royal Engineers, and Lt E J E Swayne, 16th Bengal Infantry Bombay: [Govt of Bombay Political Dept], 1892
A Précis of the Relations of the British Government with the Tribes and Shaikhs of 'Arabistan By Lieutenant A T Wilson, Acting Consul for Arabistan
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This volume consists of a précis issued by the Government of India which provides comprehensive details regarding the history of relations between the British Government and the tribes and rulers of 'Arabistan. The volume is divided into eleven sections as follows: I. British Interests in 'Arabi...
Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen.
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Report by Arthur Hills Gleadowe-Newcomen, FRGS, FSA, President of the Commercial Mission to Persia. Submitted to the Government of India, and the Committees of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, Cawnpore [Kānpur], and the Indian Tea Cess, Calcutta [Kolkata]. Publication statement: Calcutta: G...