Red Sea Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Red Sea Affairs
- Date:
- 1861/1861
- Description:
- Abstract: Enclosures nos. 3-6 to dispatch no. 22 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 June 1861. The enclosures are dated 27 May-18 June 1861. No date of receipt.The enclosures consist of intelligence reports on the Red Sea region by Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Political Resident, in charge of the Residency, Aden, and accompanying resolutions of the Honourable Board.The reports cover: suppression of the slave trade in Abyssinia; a report of the presence of Russian steamers in the Red Sea; and a description of the eruption of a volcano (Jebel Dubbeh [Dubbi, Eritrea]) near Edd on the African shore of the Red Sea.Physical description: 1 item (9 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Political intelligence
- Geographic region:
- Red Sea
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098365369.0x000014_ar
81055/vdc_100098365369.0x000014_en
IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 237-245
IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 237-245