Abyssinia Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Abyssinia Affairs
- Date:
- 1861/1861
- Description:
- Abstract: Enclosures nos. 3-4 to dispatch no. 16 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 April 1861. The enclosures are dated 2-25 March 1861. Received 24 May 1861.The first enclosure is a letter from the Solicitor to Government, Bombay, advising the Government of Bombay not to proceed with a suit for the confiscation of a captured slave vessel belonging to the port of Muscat. The second is a letter from Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Political Resident, in charge of the Residency, Aden, recommending that Mr Barroni, who had been acting as British Consul at Massowah [Massawa], Abyssinia [Ethiopia] should be presented with a year's salary in recognition of his services in providing information to the British concerning affairs in Abyssinia.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Slave trade
- Geographic region:
- Abyssinia
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098365369.0x00000e_ar
81055/vdc_100098365369.0x00000e_en
IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 172-175
IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 172-175