Abstract
In 1899, when Antonin Besse first arrived there, the Settlement of Aden’ had been, for over sixty years, part of the Bombay Presidency of the Government of India. North and East lay the Protectorates. Lahej, the Settlement’s immediate neighbour, had a fair number of European visitors: there was nowhere else for Aden residents to go to. Further East the various Sheikhdoms saw little or nothing of the Protecting Power or of its nationals. Even Mukalla was not to have a British adviser for nearly forty years. At the turn of the century the Hadhramaut, and indeed most of the interior, was for Europeans a terra incognita.
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Footman, D. (1986). 1899. In: Antonin Besse of Aden. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07731-1_1
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