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/4/2174/105546. It is the thirty-eighth in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the British Agent at Muscat.The item concerns the complaint of the agent of a merchant based at Tatta [Thatta]. While at Asseloo [Bandar-e ‘Asaluyeh], the ship he was on was occupied by local residents fleeing Persian troops, and money was extorted from him by the shaiks [shaikhs] of Asseloo and Nukheloo [Nakhilu].The item contains a table of contents (f 662), and the title page (f 661) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 38’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 7 of No. 119’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 661 and terminates at f 668, 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.
