Affairs at Aden and Within its Vicinity

Title:

Affairs at Aden and Within its Vicinity

Date:

1853/1906

Description:

Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 11 of 1853, dated 12 February 1853. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-6. Enclosure number 3 is dated January 1853.Enclosure number 3 is a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, consisting of a general report on the state of affairs at Aden and within its vicinity, mostly concerning relations between the local tribes, in relation to the quarrel between the Foutheli [Fadhli] Sultan and the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej or Lahij].Numbers 4-6, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Times, the Bombay Overland Telegraph & Courier, and the Bombay Overland Gazettenewspapers, dated 12 February 1853, are noted as missing.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-6, on folio 280. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Tribal relations
Sultan of Fadhli
Sultan of Lahej

Geographic region:

Aden

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100129828648.0x00000a_ar
81055/vdc_100129828648.0x00000a_en
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 280-283
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 280-283

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