when did slavery end in egypt

(Gen. 47:1, 6) The Israelites “kept on multiplying and growing mightier.” So the Egyptians grew fearful of the Israelites and forced them into slavery. 141/63; Borg to Vivian, Cairo, 1 July 1878, F.O. 1878, and ‘Statement by Saîd el Soudani’ in Borg to Governor of Cairo, 18 Apr. For sources see notes 37 and 50 above; Borg to Vivian, Cairo, 23 Aug. 1878, F.O. 3, pp. 1872, F.O. 84/1277.Google Scholar, 126 Borg to Malet, Cairo, 8 May 1880, F.O. Frank, 145;Google ScholarLane, 190 (decline by 50 per cent in the course of a few years);Google ScholarSakakini to Malet, Alexandria, 14 June 1880, F.O. » Five Books of Moses Borg to Malet, Cairo, 8 May 1880, F.O. cit. 84/1277. 141/140. Baer, passim.Google Scholar, 82 Reade to Cherif Pacha, 8 Aug. 1867, F.O. For the late 1890s see, for instance, Sir Scott, John, ‘L'abolition de l'esclavage en Egypte’, Revue de l'Islam, VI (Paris, 1901), 92.Google Scholar, 122 For a concise treatment of this matter see Holt, P. M., A Modern History of the Sudan (London, 1961), 64–70. "openAccess": "0", 84/1305.Google Scholar, 35 Hekekyan Papers, vol. I’d like to recite Tehillim. 141/131.Google Scholar, 124 See Colquhoun to Russell, Alexandria, 17 Aug. 1863, F.O. 1865, F.O. 84/1472;Google ScholarClot-Bey, A. 141/140. In nineteenth-century Egypt Circassian females were mostly kept in the harems of wealthy Turks, the concubines of ‘middle class’ Egyptians generally were Abyssinians, while male and female Negro slaves were used for domestic service by almost all layers of Egyptian society. There were 150 eunuchs in Qasr al-';A¯lī alone—see Tugay, 191. simply because the Hyksos were really very good rulers, knowing how to adopt and improve the Egyptian lifestyle. Egypt Slavery iN ottomaN egypt Slavery has existed in Egypt since ancient times. 141/59;Google ScholarCalvert to Reade, Alexandria, Oct. 1867, F.O. 141/128;Google ScholarBorg to Lascelles, Cairo, 8 Sept. 1879, F.O. According to this author the reason for contradictory information on this subject was that the registers were burnt every year by the Coptic scribes or the proprietors of the. Reade to Stanley, Alexandria, 9 Aug. 1867, F.O.141/63; Vivian to Derby, Cairo, 8 Dec. 1876, F.O. 141/62;Google ScholarRogers to Stanton, Cairo, 22 Feb. 1872, F.O. It appears to be common practice of the pharaohs to give slaves away to higher ranking officials and nobles in Egypt. Thus, if he was 43 when he arrived in Egypt, he died 94 years later. For a similar opinion expressed by the Egyptian paper al-Mu'ayyadGoogle Scholar see Ibid., appendix, 124. Gradually and stealthily, he forced them to become his slaves. See, for instance, West to Stanton, Suez, 29 Jan. and 3 Mar. In addition to domestic service, black slaves were used as soldiers by Egypt's rulers and, contrary to the prevalent assumption, as agricultural workers on the farms of the Muḥammad Alī family and elsewhere in Upper Egypt and during periods of prosperity and shortage of labour also in Lower Egypt. Cf. Bruce to Clarendon, Cairo, a Aug. 1854, P.R.O., F.O. 40, 44; Correspondence Respecting Slavery in Egypt, Africa no. 1865, F.O. Rogers to Vivian, Cairo, 2 Aug. 1873, F.O. Gordon to Consul General, Cairo (telegram), Khartoum, 28 July 1879, F.O. Due to limited resources, the Ask the Rabbi service is intended for Jews of little background with 2877, F.O. 141/82.Google Scholar, 103 See Vivian to Derby, Cairo, 8 Dec. 1876, F.O. Frank, 138.Google Scholar, 55 Gray, 44–5 ‘Memorandum by Mr Petherick’, F.O. 84/1181;Google Scholar Petherick to Coiquhoun, Cairo, 17 Mar. 84/1305;Google ScholarPalgrave to Clarendon, Trebizond, 6 July 1870, F.O. It’s actually interesting, the Talmud answers this directly – that the slavery ended on Rosh Hashanah of the year of the Exodus (Talmud Rosh Hashanah 11a). At the same time there is a Midrash (Shemot Rabbah 5:19) that after Moses first approached Pharaoh and he made the slavery even harsher, Moses had to flee back to Midian for either 3 or 6 months. 141/140; Reade to Stanton, Cairo, 28 May 1868, F.O. Slavery in Nineteenth Century Egypt - Volume 8 Issue 3. Arabic text in Sa¯mI, part 3, vol. Cf. Della Sala to Riaz Pacha, Cairo, 12 Sept. 1880, F.O. 4 (1889), C. 5718, 44.Google Scholar, 51 Pisani to Elliot, 14 Sept. 1869, end, in Elliot to Clarendon, Constantinople, 54 Sept. 1869;Google ScholarTaylor to Clarendon, Erzeroom, 20 Sept. 1869;Google ScholarPalgrave to Clarendon, Trebizond, 25 Sept. 1869;Google ScholarFrancis to Clarendon, Constantinople, 28 Sept. 1869;Google ScholarElliot to Clarendon, 27 Oct. 1869;Google ScholarRogers to Clarendon, Cairo, 24 Nov. 1869, F.O. 5, British Museum, MS., Add. See also Mubarak, XI, 2, mentioning the slave-trade as one of the major occupations of the people of Dara¯w. 78/147; Report by John Barker, Alexandria, 17 May 1828, Barker to Vice-Admiral Codringion, Alexandria, 24 May 1828, and Barker to Vice-Admiral Malcolm, Alexandria, 21 Nov. 1828, F.O. Their main use was in domestic service, where they did the coarse work—except in families where both slaves and free servants were kept; in … Canbakal, Hülya Egypt and Arabian peninsula: ... Christianity was used to justify the institution of slavery in the American south, with most clergy in the south believing and preaching that enslavement was a progressive system designed by God to affect the Christianization of Africans. 84/1120;Google ScholarStanton to Clarendon, Alexandria, 9 May 1866, F.O. ;CrossRefGoogle ScholarSenior, N. W., Conversations and Journals in Egypt and Malta (London, 1882), I, 207.Google Scholar, 48 Mengin, 157–9;Google ScholarBowring, 9–10;Google ScholarCol. The Israelites had been in Egypt for generations, but now that they had become so numerous, the Pharaoh feared their presence. 1 Bowring, John, Report on Egypt and Candia (London, 1840), 9;Google ScholarHekekyan Papers, vol. 141/120. 141/82; ‘Statement by Said el Soudani’, encl, in Borg to Governor of Cairo, 18 Apr. Your transactions are secure. Apparently there were at least 30,000 slaves in Egypt at different times of the nineteenth century, and probably many more. 141/138; ‘Report on the slave trade… in the consular district of Jedda’, Raby to Clarendon, Jidda, 10 Dec. 1869, F.O. 141/138.Google Scholar, 65 White, II, 285–6;Google ScholarGirard, 649.Google Scholar, 66 F.O. 343/82; ‘Confidential memorandum on slave dealing in Alexandria’ (signed Ali Hassan), Alexandria, 2 and 6 June 1873, F.O. White slaves were brought to Egypt from the eastern coast of the Black Sea and from the Circassian settlements of Anatolia via Istanbul. See, for instance, ‘List of slaves freed by Thos. 343/82; ‘Confidential memorandum on slave dealing in Alexandria’ (signed Ali Hassan), Alexandria, 2 and 6 June 1873, F.O. 84/1290;Google ScholarRogers to Stanton, Cairo, 23 Apr. French text also in Gelat, 3ème période, 1894–6, I (Alexandria, 1897), 584–90, and in Gouvernement Egvptien, Ministère de l'Intérieur,Google ScholarLégislation administrative et criminelle, 3ème edition, II (Cairo, 1914), 179–186.Google Scholar, 121 For trials in the late 1880s and the early 1890s see sources mentioned in note 71. Hekekyan Papers, vol. 4 (1889) C. 5718, p. 44. 141/140.Google Scholar, 127 Hogg to Malet, ibid., and 6 April 1881, F.O. Jan 26 | 13 Shevat | 1891, Egypt no. The Jews were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years. 84/1450.Google Scholar, 32 De Chabrol, , ‘Essai sur les mceurs des habitants modernes de l'Egypte’, Description de l'Egypte, Etat moderne, II, part 2 (Paris, 1812), 482.Google Scholar, 34 Hekekyan Papers, vol. 141/120. 84/974. According to Exodus 12:37–38, the Israelites numbered "about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children," plus many non-Israelites and livestock. It thus demonstrates for us how self-destructive arrogance is. 469–70 (written on 33 Sept. 1844); Muba¯rak, XVII, 23.Google Scholar, 36 Further Correspondence Respecting the Finances and Conditions of Egypt, Egypt no. I (1878). 1838, F.O. B., New Egypt (London, 1905), 139.Google Scholar, 141 For a description of this Home, see Lamba, H., ‘L'esclavage en Egypte’, Revue de l'Islam, VI (1901), 69–75. Presumably, many of these roles, especially agricultural ones, were in place already during the Middle Kingdom. della Sala to Malet, Assiout, 8 Nov. 1880, F.O. ; Reade to Stanley, Alexandria, 9 Aug. 1867, F.O.141/63; Vivian to Derby, Cairo, 8 Dec. 1876, F.O. See Brunschvig, 37. According to this author the reason for contradictory information on this subject was that the registers were burnt every year by the Coptic scribes or the proprietors of the waka¯la (see below).Google Scholar, 61 Bowring, 9, and Bowring to Palmerston, off Tripoli (Syria), 7 Apr. Report by Henry Salt, Alexandria, 12 Aug. 1826, F.O. 84/1277;Google ScholarBorg to Vivian, Cairo, 19 Apr. "metricsAbstractViews": false, See likewise Midrash (Shemot Rabbah 9:12, brought in Rashi to Exodus 7:25) that each plague lasted one month. }. 1877, F.O. I (1896), C. 7978, pp. 84/1181; Petherick to Coiquhoun, Cairo, 17 Mar. 6 June 1877, which must be an error. This later became the accepted view of the Islamic Modernists. 78/502 (also 84/426);Google Scholar‘Memorandum by Mr Petherick’, loc. 84/1324, passim; Stanley to Granville, Alexandria, 10 Sept. 1872, F.O. 141/78, part 2;Google ScholarHarding to Stanton, Mansura, 30 May 1873, and Consular Agent at Mansura to Vivian, 23 June and 22 July 1873, F.O. } 78/373; Barnett to Aberdeen, Alexandria, 27 Apr. A bit about ancient Egyptian slavery. 3, B.M., Add. della Sala to Malet, Assiout, 8 Nov. 1880, F.O. Bowring, 9, and Bowring to Palmerston, off Tripoli (Syria), 7 Apr. Report by Henry Salt, Alexandria, 32 July 1827, F.O. 1878, and ‘Statement by Saîd el Soudani’ in Borg to Governor of Cairo, 18 Apr. Cherif to Stanton, Cairo, 2 Jan. 1866, and West to Stanton, Suez, 10 Jan. 1866, F.O. What isn’t clear is at what point during the plagues this was. 141/120.Google Scholar, 111 Majm¯ at al-qara¯ra¯t (1880), 98–9;Google Scholar Sir Malet, Edward, Egypt, 1879–1883 (London, 1909), 63.Google Scholar, 112 Della Sala to Malet, Cairo, 26 Oct. 1880, F.O. 2, B.M,, Add. Of course, the slavery did not start the day Levi died. Cf. See end, in Cherif to Vivian, Cairo, 9 Jan. 1878, F.O. 141/140.Google Scholar, 37 Correspondence Respecting Slavery in Egypt, Africa no. 341/84 (also 84/1371).Google Scholar, 39 Reade to Stanley, Alexandria, 9 Aug. 1867, F.O. McCoan's claim (p. 321) that the Consular agent at Manura ‘emancipated’ no fewer than 1,700 slaves in a single month in 1873 is not accurate. 37450, f. 224 (written in Jan. 1847); Rogers to Clarendon, Cairo, 24 Nov. 3869, F.O. 78/408B.Google Scholar, 49 Bey, M. J. Colucci, ‘Quelques notes sur le cholera qui sévit au Caire en 1850 Ct 1855’, Mémires… présentées… à l'Institut Egyptien, I (Paris, 1862), 607.Google Scholar, 50 Further Correspondence Respecting Reorganization in Egypt, Egypt no. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967, Hostname: page-component-898fc554b-5qzh9 3 (1891), C. 6321, p. 36.Google Scholar, 116 Ph.Gelat, , Répertoire de la législation et de l'administration égyptienne, zènle période, I, (Alexandria, 1893), 588 (Minister of the Interior, Circular of 21 July 1888).Google Scholar, 117 For sources see notes 37 and 50 above; Borg to Vivian, Cairo, 23 Aug. 1878, F.O. 84/737;Google ScholarVivian to Derby, Alexandria, 30 June 1877, F.O. 84/1277;Google Scholarcf. And the echoes of such manically obsessive behavior can be found in many of the most megalomanic dictators throughout the ages (R. Yochanan Zweig). The British and specific Sudanese aspects of the campaign against the slave-trade are beyond the scope of this paper.Google Scholar, 100 McCoan, 321;Google ScholarSir Bulwer, Henry (British ambassador in Istanbul) to Stanley (British consul in Alexandria), Alexandria, 21 Mar. Since Israel’s entire stay in Egypt was 210 years (see Talmud Megillah 9a and Rashi to Exodus 12:40), this would mean the maximum the slavery could have lasted was 116 years. 141/140.Google ScholarCf. Ex 12:37 ..[they] journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 on foot that were men, beside children. 84/1305. 84/1354.Google Scholar, 74 Borg to Lascelles, Cairo, 8 Sept. 1879, F.O. The Hyksos Pharaohs were always desperate to prove their (non-existent, really) The Egyptians did not like being controlled by these "barbarian" tribes… 141/119; etc.Google Scholar, 31 Campbell to Palmerston, Cairo, 15 Mar. 84/1290.Google Scholar, 25 See, for instance, McCoan, 315 ff. B., Aperçu général sur l'Egypte (Paris, 1840), I, 274 ff. Our principal source for establishing the identity of slave-dealers were their trials as published in. One month per plague implies 9-10 months total (since the final plague – the death of the firstborn – occurred instantly). Is she the same wife as Jethro’s daughter Zipporah whom Moses earlier married... », I’ve noticed that our synagogue has morning services (Shacharit) quite early during the workweek, after which most of the congregants hurry off to... », Receive the Aish.com Daily Features Email. 84/1277.Google Scholar, 83 ‘Report of Dr Natterer’ in Coiquhoun to Russell, 29 May 1860, F.O. 4, 132, 273, 407, 602; 1893, pp. 1880, F.O. They settled in the region of Egypt called Goshen, in the Nile Delta. cit. The Aish Rabbi She had been praying for a child of her own to give to Jacob because she was not able to conceive. 141/140 (fluctuations of 12–18 per cent from one year to another). 141/82. See also Vivian to Derby, Cairo, 2 Mar. 141/119; etc. Mémoire sur le commerce des Nègres au Caire…. 84/426, and I Aug. 2843, F.O. 141/140; and for women, Reade to Cherif Pacha, Alexandria, 8 Aug. 1867, F.O. Most girls in Egypt undergo FGM type 2 or 3 between the ages of 4 and 12. Torah Portion, My Grandfather Survived the Killing Fields of Ukraine, Holocaust Survivor’s Falafel is Tribute to His Survival, Right Where You're Supposed to Be: This Really Happened, Guardians of the Earth: A Tu B'Shvat Video, Honey, Dates and Olives, Oh My! 84/1120; Gray, 52.Google Scholar, 81 Reade to Cherif Pacha, 8 Aug. 8867, F.O. The Regulations themselves are not dated in Sa¯mī's text. How an educator uses Prezi Video to approach adult learning theory British abolitionists began inspecting slave ships and publicizing details of the Middle Passage. Slavery as a form of war booty or bondage for being in debt largely continued in many societies even after ancient periods and into the Medieval period. 141/78, part 2; Harding to Stanton, Mansura, 30 May 1873, and Consular Agent at Mansura to Vivian, 23 June and 22 July 1873, F.O. "figures": false, ‘List of Slaves ‘in’ ‘Memorandum by Consul Reade’, loc. 343/82;Google ScholarBorg to Vivian, Cairo, I July 1878, F.O. 141/220; Borg to Lascellcs, Cairo, 8 Sept. 1879, F.O. The slave population has been estimated at anywhere from 25 to "40%" of the population of the city as a whole - 350,000 of the 900,000 total inhabitants. 84/1290. Reade to Stanley, Alexandria, 9 Aug. 1867, F.O. Total loading time: 0.715 84/486.Google Scholar, 93 For Turkish text and English translation of the order dated Dec. 1854, see F.O. https://www.aish.com/atr/End-of-Slavery-in-Egypt.html. 141/140; Répertoire de la législation et de l'administration égyptienne. 141/138;Google ScholarSmith, Robertson to Malet, Alexandria, 22 Apr. Slavery was not a dominant fixture - it was a luxury and privilege for the ruling elite only Slavery in ancient Rome was vital the economy and the social fabric of the society. Colquhoun to Cherif Pasha, Alexandria, 4 June 1862, F.O. 156 Cf. Cf. ), Recueil de firmans impériaux ottomans adressés aux valis et aux khédives d'Egypte (Cairo, 1934), 268–70. 1882, F.O. For beduin, see also Hogg to Malet, Minya, 6 May 1880, F.O. Slavery gradually diminished during the nineteenth century, but there is no exact date known when all slavery had ceased to exist in Egypt. 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Cairo was the great depot of slaves and the centre of the trade, but a very important occasion for trading in slaves was the annual mawlid of Ṭanṭā. 84/1277.Google Scholar, 79 Ibid..; ‘Confidential memorandum on slave dealing in Alexandria’, F.O. 84/1354. Baer. The public was outraged and the movement got massive support for their cause. The information that has been translated seems to show the largest growth in slavery during the New Kingdom era. 141/59; Rogers to Vivian, Cairo, 2 Aug. 1873, F.O. 84/8305; Borg to Vivian, Cairo, 23 Aug. 1878, F.O. 265, 548; 1891, pp. End Of The Middle Passage. According to another source they were dated ‘7 Shawwa¯l 1294/14 October 1877’. Rogers to Vivian, Cairo 3 Sept. 1873, F.O. 141/121.Google Scholar, 145 Felice to Borg, Zagazig, I Mar. 84/1120; Colquhoun to Russell, Alexandria, I July and 17 Aug. 1863, F.O. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700007945. 3 (1891), C. 6321, p. 36,Google Scholarcf. F.O. 6 (1896), C. 8011. 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See, instance, Rashīd Rida¯, Tafsīr al-Mana¯r, Xl, 2nd ed. However, in Gray's view, ‘the impression given (by Baker) to those who directed policy both in Egypt and Europe was that the misery of the situation on the White Nile was solely due to the operations of the slave trade, with the result that their subsequent efforts to suppress it led them to overlook the more serious sources of this trade elsewhere and to ignore the fundamental factors which were creating the disaster on the White Nile’. 4 (1887), C. 4994, pp. 84/486. 141/121;Google ScholarBorg to Lascelles, Cairo, 8 Sept. 1879, F.O. It isn’t clear, however, exactly at what point during the plagues this occurred. Cherif to Stanton, Cairo, 2 Jan. 1866, and West to Stanton, Suez, 10 Jan. 1866, F.O. 178, 430; 1894, p. 78. "shouldUseHypothesis": true, 141/84.Google Scholar, 80 ‘Memorandum by Mr Petherick’, Dec. 1860, and ‘Report of Dr Natterer’, 5 Apr. 23, 30–1, 120; 1889, pp. 84/974. 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They were suffering under their bondage, and it was time for Moses to lead them out of Egypt and slavery as detailed in the Exodus. I have included them in this section because New Kingdom texts make it abundantly clear regarding these various jobs. Some modern critics have mocked the above Bible account, calling it a myth. Cf. He also serves as a volunteer writer for Torah.org. F. Reade’, in ‘Memorandum by Consul Reade on slave trade in Egypt’, London, 13 Aug. 1868, F.O. 78/160; Barker to Stratford Canning, Alexandria, II Oct. 1828, F.O. Vivian to Derby, Cairo, 9 Oct. 1877, F.O. If... », Who was the Ethiopian (Cushite) wife that Moses took (Numbers 12:1)? At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord's divisions left Egypt. 240/120;Google Scholarsee also Borg to Vivian, Cairo, 23 Aug. 1878, F.O. ; Cattaui, 230–6;Google ScholarLane, 104;Google ScholarMuba¯rak, XIV, 53;Google ScholarMcCoan, 326–7;Google Scholar‘List of Slaves ‘in’ ‘Memorandum by Consul Reade’, loc. 84/1120 (3,000–4,000 in the late 1850s).Google Scholar, 63 Stanton to Clarendon, Alexandria, 9 May 1866, F.O. Blog. 84/1305. for this article. See Further Correspondence Respecting Reorganization in Egypt, Egypt no. See Vivian to Derby, Cairo, 8 Dec. 1876, F.O. 141/138; Hogg to Malet, Assiout, 3 May 1880, F.O. 78/1036. 155 Shafīq, 95-6, 101. See, for instance, Carr to Rogers, Kafr al-Zayya¯t, 20 Aug. 1871, F.O. », I'm hoping that you can clarify a few terms that are not clear for me. 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The Mamluks, meaning property, were brought in as slaves in Egypt and began to serve in the army. It is available as both book and ebook. 3 p. 1489.Google Scholar, 136 See della Sala to Riaz, Cairo, 21 Mar. Bruce to Clarendon, Cairo, 17 Jan. F.O. It is interesting to note that ten Abyssinian girls bought in the Cairo slave market made up the first batch of girl students at Mubammad 'Alī's, An Introduction to the History of Education in Modern Egypt. 141/138. There were 150 eunuchs in Qasr al-';A¯lī alone—see Tugay, 191.Google Scholar, 23 Frank, Louis, ‘Mémoire sur le commerce des Nègres au Caire…’, Mémoires sur l'Egypte, IV, 132ff. 141/151.Google Scholar, 113 Cf. Borg to Cookson, Cairo, 21 Oct. 1877, F.O. * Views captured on Cambridge Core between September 2016 - 26th January 2021. 78/170. Question: "Why did God send the Israelites to Egypt for 400 years (Genesis 15:13)?" I’m trying to figure out the timeline of the Exodus. Cf. This is when Egypt had a large number of military campaigns and wars and brought slaves back with them. The book was written in an apologetic vein as a reply prominent members of the Catholic Church who had accused Islam and the Arabs for part in African slavery and the slave trade.Google Scholar, 153 Shafiq, Al-riqq fi'l-Isla¯m, 67 ff., 85–92.Google Scholar. by their parents into slavery.20 However, the bulk of slaves in Egypt were black slaves from different parts of Africa, both male and female. Egerton to Reade, 28 Aug. 1868, F.O. 84/1290; Rogers to Clarendon, 24 Nov. 1869, F.O. Toward the end of the 16th century, Talmudic studies in Egypt were greatly fostered by Bezaleel Ashkenazi, author of the "Shiṭṭah Meḳubbeẓet." A friend of Mona Ali, Assa Hassan, is a recent convert to ending FGM. One idea to end slavery gradually was that newborn babies should be born free. 84/1120 (3,000–4,000 in the late 1850s). 37450, f. 224 (written in Jan. 1847); Rogers to Clarendon, Cairo, 24 Nov. 3869, F.O. This data will be updated every 24 hours. 84/1371. 1866, F.O. 84/1450, and 13 Jan. 1877, F.O. 141/121.Google Scholar, 54 Girard, 636–7;Google ScholarLapanouse, M. J., 96–8, i 116 ff. Numbers 1:46 gives a more precise total of 603,550 men aged 20 and up. 84/1120; Stanton to Clarendon, Alexandria, 9 May 1866, F.O. Campbell to Palmerston, Cairo, 15 Mar. 1878, F.O. Cf. Pisani to Elliot, 14 Sept. 1869, end, in Elliot to Clarendon, Constantinople, 54 Sept. 1869; Taylor to Clarendon, Erzeroom, 20 Sept. 1869; Palgrave to Clarendon, Trebizond, 25 Sept. 1869; Francis to Clarendon, Constantinople, 28 Sept. 1869; Rogers to Clarendon, Cairo, 24 Nov. 1869, F.O. 84/1472. 84/1397;Google ScholarHenderson to Derby, Benghazi, 24 Dec. 1875, F.O. McCoan, J. 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