84. Edmund Gabriel, St Paul de Loanda [Luanda, Angola], to Rev Arthur Tidman [Mission House, Blomfield Street, London]

Scope and Content

Informing Society's Directors of Livingstone's arrival at Loanda on 31st May; Livingstone very ill and unable to report on the particulars of his journey from the Zambeze [Zambesi, Zambezi]; Sekeletu supplied Livingstone with 27 men and oxen to enable him to make his journey to the [West] Coast; gives details of the journey (as related by Livingstone in letter 82).

Administrative / Biographical History

Edmund Gabriel (1821-1862); entered Royal Navy in 1842; in 1845 appointed arbitrator in the mixed British and Portuguese Commission established at Luanda under the Lisbon treaty (July 1842) for the suppression of the slave trade; acting Commissioner 1856; full Commissioner 1859. Gabriel met Livingstone while he was in Loanda [Luanda] and recovering from serious illness. (Source : Schapera)

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