'Persian Gulf. Piracy on a Karrack boat by a party of the Huwajir tribe from Bahrein.'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Persian Gulf. Piracy on a Karrack boat by a party of the Huwajir tribe from Bahrein.'
- Date:
- 1850/1850
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the fourth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain].The item concerns the plunder of a boat belonging to the people of Karrak [Jazireh-ye Khark, also rendered as Karrack in the item], by a group from the Huwajir [al-Hawājir, also rendered as Huwajee and Howejier in the item] tribe. Hennell demands compensation from Sheik Mahomed ben Khuleefa [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], the Ruler of Bahrein, who he deems to be responsible for the group who carried out the attack. The item includes a statement by Abdool Rahman [‘Abd al-Raḥmān], the nakhoda [nakhuda] of the plundered boat, and a letter from Sheik Mahomed ben Khuleefa.The item contains a table of contents (f 464), and the title page (f 463) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 4’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 463 and terminates at f 480, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Compensation
Seizure of vessels and cargoes
King of Bahrain - Geographic region:
- Bahrein
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108386762.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108386762.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2416/130509
IOR/F/4/2416/130509