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73. ‘Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., President, representing the Upper India Chamber of Commerce and the Indian Tea Cess Committee.’
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- Abstract: Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia written by Arthur Hills Gleadowe-Newcomen, President of the Commercial Mission to Persia. The purpose of the commercial mission was to report on the present position and future prospects of the trade of South-Eastern Persia with a view to increasing Indo-Persian Trade.The report comprises five parts:Part I – Introduction: inception of mission; route, including journey from Bombay [Mumbai] to Bander Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās].Part II – General: physical features of country; people; trade statistics and methods; banking industry; agricultural banks; Russian competition; consular matters; engineering (irrigation, railway and harbour construction, mining); customs and imports.Part III – Trading centres: Bander Abbas; Saiadabad [Sa‘īdābād, or Sirjan]; Bahramabad [Bahrāmābād, or Rafsanjān]; Kerman; Khabis [Shahdād]; Gok [Bāgh Gūk]; Bam; Jiruft [Jīroft] and Rudbar; Yezd; Shiraz; Bushire.Part IV – Imports and Exports, including chief articles of commerce (statistics, Russian trade, customs tariff) and development of trade.Part V includes a number of appendices comprising statistical tables of imports and exports, telegraph rates, descriptions of trade routes, costs and times of transport routes, the itinerary of the mission and a map of the caravan routes of South East Persia.The report was published in Calcutta by the Government of India Foreign Dept, 1906.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at a map in the inside back cover with 87; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
74. ‘Report on the British Trade with Persia and Arabia.’
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- Abstract: Extract of Bombay Commercial Consultations prepared by Charles Walking, the Secretary to the Court of Directors, in which he includes an enclosure from the Resident and joint Factor at Bussora [Basra] and from the Resident at Bushire [Bushehr], Samuel Manesty and Harford Jones respectively. The enclosure covers: the Residents’ correspondence with Persian officials; the Persian Government’s views on the establishment of British factories in the Kingdom of Persia [Iran]; the privileges and the commercial advantages that would be granted by the Shah of Persia to the East India Company (EIC); and a list of the different kinds of goods usually brought to Bushire from India.The enclosure also includes a ‘Report of the Commerce of Arabia and Persia’ (ff 208-286) based on information already available from previous reports of the Bushire Factory. The report is prepared and signed by the Residents of Bussora and Bushire. It is divided into three parts: ‘Commerce of Arabia bordering on the Persian Gulph [Gulf]’, ‘Commerce of the Red Sea’, and ‘Commerce of Persia’.‘Commerce of Arabia bordering on the Persian Gulph’ covers the following matters:Trade status in Muscat, Bahreen [Bahrain], Catiffe [Qatif], Jebarra [Zubarah], Bussora, and Bagdad [Baghdad, also spelled as Bagdat]Privileges granted by the Ottoman Empire to the British and other European nations at BussoraAccount of the main powerful Arab tribes in the region including: Benechalid [Banū Khālid], Beneattaba [Banū ‘Utbah], Whahab [the Wahhābīs], and the Montificka Arabs [al-Muntafiq Arab tribal confederation]The trade activities of merchants from Constantinople [Istanbul], Aleppo, Damascus, Mardin, Orfa [Urfa], and Diarbeker [Diyarbakir]Commodities traded including: sugar, dried fruit, rose water, coffee, spices, rice, pearls, woollen goods, metals, and opiumThe activities of vessels belonging to Arabs and Moslem [Muslim] merchants of Surat and MuscatThe European vessels in the Persian Gulph.It appears that part of the report is missing (between folios 242v and 243r). This may have been the second part, ‘Commerce of the Red Sea’.‘Commerce of Persia’ covering:The EIC’s trade activities in Persia and the attitude of the Persian Kings towards itRemarks on the Factory at Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]The Dutch Factory activities on the Island of Carrack [Jazireh-ye Khark]Events taking place in Persia [Iran] and their impact on the commerce as early as 1773The status of trade on the Island of Ormus [Jazireh-ye Hormoz]The trade with Kandahar [also spelled as Candahoor]The languishing state of the EIC’s commerce at the port of BushireThe importation to England of raw silk from PersiaThe type of woollen goods and other British products suitable for the Persian marketDescription of the arrival of a Persian pilgrim caravan in BagdadComparison between the carpets manufactured in Persia and those manufactured in England, the Wilton and Axminster carpets in particularAnnual accounts of exports and imports between the Persian Gulph, the Red Sea, and IndiaThe recommendation to establish factories at the ports of Mocha and Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (90 folios)
75. 'REPORT ON THE TRADE AND INDUSTRY OF PERSIA to June, 1923.'
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- Abstract: This volume consists of a report on the trade and industry of Persia, written in two sub-divided chapters.The volume also includes a map showing trade routes, a summary of general information and a conclusion, and an appendix showing imports and exports from 1921-1922.The report was written by Robert Henry Hadow, Secretary in Charge of Commercial Affairs, British Legation, Tehran, and was printed in 1923 by HM Stationery Office on behalf of the Department of Overseas Trade.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 13; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
76. 'Abstracts of ship’s journals preserved in the India Office (1610-1623)'
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- Abstract: This volume contains handwritten abstracts of journals of the Seventh, Tenth, Second Joint Stock, Fifth Joint Stock, and Seventh Joint Stock voyages of the East India Company, dating from 1610 to 1624, which had been preserved in the India Office. The volume is undated.It includes a tabular index to abstracts numbered 1 to 30 (folio 2 verso to folio 3), with columns listing the following: abstract number; voyage number; dates covered by the abstract; writer of the journal; ship; Chief Commander of the voyage; number of pages; and a brief description of the contents of the abstract. The abstracts included in this volume are numbers 9-11 and 13-30. There is a note on folio 1 of the volume stating that abstract numbers 1-8 and 11-12 'have been printed in the Hakluyt Society's volume containing the Narratives of the voyages of Sir James Lancaster'.The volume contains abstracts of the following journals:9. Peter W Flores [Floris] in the Globe, 5 January 1610/11 to 17 February 1614/1510. Captain Thomas Best in the Dragon, 1 February 1611/12 to 15 June 161411. Extracts from several journals, April 1613 to July 161713. Edward Dodsworth, a merchant, in the Hope, 28 February 1613/14 to 2 November 161514. John Munden, Master’s Mate, in the Hector, 28 February 1613/14 to 20 June 161715. Journal of the New Year’s Gift, 9 March 1613/14 to 30 September 161416. Edmund Sayer, a merchant, in the junk Sea Adventureand another ship, 7 December 1615 to 22 October 161617. Journals of two voyages, one from Patania to Japan, and one from Japan to Bantam, 10 July to 11 September 1615, and 20 February 1615/16 to 26 April 161618. John Borden in the Clove, April 1616 to 19 June 161719. Edmund Sayer, a merchant, 20 March 1616/17 to 7 September 161720. Captain Robert Adams in the Bull, 5 March 1616/17 to 29 December 161821. Captain John Rowe in the Expedition, 30 October 1618 to 10 January 1618/1922. Richard Bragge, Master’s Mate, in the Moon, 25 July to 5 November 161823. Henry Crosbye in the Charlesand other vessels, 21 March 1618/19 to 19 June 162424. Archibald Jennison in the London, 25 March 1620 to 18 June 162225. Richard Swan in the Roebuckand the Hart, 4 February 1619/20 to 12 June 162226. Captain Richard Swanley in the Exchange, 18 March 1619/20 to 24 June 162427. John Wood, Master, in the Lesser James, 14 January 1620/21 to 27 May 162128. Richard Swanley in the Jonasand the Lion, 19 March 1620/21 to 23 July 162329. Logs of the Palsgrave, the Bulland the Ann Royal, 23 November 1621 to 5 September 162230. Log of the Elizabeth, 25 March to 7 November 1623, and 18 December 1623 to 21 February 1623/24Dates are given in both Old Style and New Style years.The most detailed abstracts are numbers 9, 10, 13, 15, 21, 23 and 25.Most of the abstracts include tables of storms recorded in each journal, with columns usually listing the following for each storm: date, latitude, longitude, course, wind direction, and the description of the storm in the journal.The final folio of each abstract usually includes a brief summary of what is recorded in the parts of the journals which have been abstracted, and the summaries for the shorter abstracts often include comments by the creator of this volume stating that (in the opinion of the creator) the abstracts contain little or no 'matter of interest'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 158; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
77. Dragon: Journal, William Finch and John Hearne, Factors, Vol. 5
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- Abstract: Journal of the East India Company ship, Red Dragon(Captain William Keeling), kept by John Hearne and William Finche. The journal covers the ship's voyage from England to Sierra Leona [Sierra Leone], Madagascar, and Zokatora [Socotra]. The ship's passage from Zokatora to Bantam [Banten] is not covered by the journal. Dates of landing are as follows: 15 April 1607, Plymouth; 6 August 1607, Sierra Leona; 18 December 1607, Saldania [Saldanha]; 19 February 1608, St Augustine Bay, Madagascar; 21 April 1608, Zokatora.The journal consists of almost daily entries with information such as course, winds, weather, navigational data, land sightings, and other general remarks. When the ship is at anchor the entries tend to be longer, with details of geography, people encountered, trade, and other miscellaneous information. The margin contains names of the deceased and, written in a different hand and probably made a later date, notes on the main text. Throughout the volume there are small pen sketches of islands and coastlines observed on the voyage (folios 6, 8, 16, 19, 23, 24, 25).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 47; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 34-46, which have not been digitised.
78. 'A HANDBOOK OF MESOPOTAMIA VOLUME 1 GENERAL'
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- Abstract: This volume is Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume 1: General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division: August 1916). The handbook contains a variety of information about the region of Mesopotamia, including its geography, economy, population, and history. The prefatory note at the start of the volume specifies that it ‘contains matter of a general nature’, while the following three volumes in the series contain ‘detailed description of the river and land routes’. The handbook comprises information about Mesopotamia under the following chapter headings:‘Boundaries and Physical Features’‘Climate’‘Minerals’‘Flora and Fauna’‘Hygiene’‘History’‘Inhabitants’‘Religions’‘Administration’‘Irrigation of Irak’‘Agriculture’‘Commerce and Industry’‘Currency, Weights and Measures’‘Communication and Transport’‘Transliteration of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Names’‘Vocabularies’.The volume also contains three maps: ‘Administrative Divisions and Chief Towns’ (f 363), ‘Racial Divisions’ (f 364), and ‘Area Available For Irrigation’ (f 365). The volume contains a table of contents on folio 9r, a list of maps on folio 9v, and an index on folios 355-361.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 367; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
79. Discovery: Journal
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- Abstract: Journal of the voyage of the East India Company ship the Discoveryfrom England to Surat, Persia [Iran] and Java (Captain John Vian), 7 April 1626 to 14 November 1628. The Discoverydeparted from the Downs on 16 April 1626, and the journal covers the ship's visits to the following destinations (dates are those of the arrival, and both Old Style and New Style dates are given): 30 July 1626, Johanna [Anjouan]; 15 October 1626, Bombay [Mumbai]; 24 October 1626, Suratt [Surat]; 18 January 1626/7, Gomoroone [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]; March 1626/7, Surratt; 27 May 1627, Battavia [Jakarta]; October 1627, Surratt; 12 May 1628, Cape [of Good Hope]; 15 June 1628, St Hellena [Saint Helena]; 25 October 1628, Downs.The Journal consists of daily entries covering navigational information, winds, weather, contact with other East India Company ships and English men-of-war, sightings of other vessels, deaths of crewmembers, commodities carried, and general remarks.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 69; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
80. ‘Letters outward’
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- Abstract: The volume contains copies of letters, many with copies of their enclosures, sent by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Samuel Hennell, to Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government in Bombay. The letters deal with a range of subjects, as follows:The extent of the slave trade between Mauritius and Muscat, and in the Persian Gulf in general (folios 1-5);Relations between the various rulers on the Arab coast and Oman, including a siege led by the Imam of Muscat’s forces against the town of Sohar, the failure of the siege and renewal of peaceful relations between Muscat and Sohar (folios 10-13, 30-33, 38-43); hostilities and subsequent peaceful relations between Shaikh Sultan ben Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr] of Ras el Khymah [Ra’s al-Khaymah] and Shaikh Tahnoon ben Shakboot [Tahnun bin Shakbut] of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] (folios 44-45, 48-52), relations between the Joasmee [Āl Qāsimī] Shaikhs and the ruler of Sohar, Humood bin Azan (folios 64-65). Many of these letters enclose translated reports from the British Agent at Sharjah, Moolla Hussain, and the translations of letters from Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr, Shaikh Tahnun bin Shakbut and others;Reports on the ambitions of the Wahabee [Wahhābī] ruler Toorky bin Saood [Turki bin ‘Abdullāh bin Muḥammad Āl Sa‘ūd], and in particular to his demands on and relations with Bahrain (spelt Bahrein throughout), his desire to be on good terms with the British Government, and his diplomatic overtures to the Arab Shaikhs (folios 6-9, 16-20, 46-47, 53-56);Report of the proceedings of the Brig of War Euphratesduring February 1831, signed by Acting Commander Denton. The report lists its orders received shown alongside actions taken, in left- and right-hand columns (folios 14-15);The dispatch to Bombay of tobacco seeds, with instructions for their propagation (folios 26-29);The dispatch to Bombay of silkworm eggs, with a description of how silkworms are raised in Persia (folios 60-61);The establishment of the first lithographic press in Shiraz (folios 62-63).As a result of the volume having been significantly weeded in the past, there are multiple instances of truncated letters throughout the volume, most of which are identifiable by them having been crossed out in blue and occasionally red pencil.Physical description: Foliation: The volume is foliated from the first page of text to the last blank page at the end of the volume, using small pencil numbers positioned in the top-right corner of each recto. There is an unfoliated flyleaf before f.1 at the front of the volume. The front and back covers are unfoliated. Foliation anomalies: f.36 precedes f.35.Pagination: An original system of pagination runs through the volume, from the first to last page of text, using ink numbers in the top-left corner of versos and top-right corner of rectos. This pagination runs from p.23 to p.487 which numerous disruptions throughout, which are a result of past weeding of the volume.
81. 'LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 31. JAN. 1793 TO 21. JUNE 1803 VOL 8'
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- Abstract: The volume chiefly comprises letters to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company from the Resident and Factor at Bussora [Basra], Samuel Manesty. The letters are dated 31 January 1793-21 June 1803 and the date each letter was received is recorded on the back of it.From 31 January 1793 to 2 August 1794 (ff 1-38), many letters are also signed by Harford Jones, who acted as Assistant Resident and co-Factor up to 1794. Between 3 January and 25 September 1796 (ff 51-192) there are letters which overlap with Manesty’s, written by [George] Nathan Crowe and Peter LeMessurier [Le Mesurier], who were appointed to run the Bussora Residency and Factory following the suspension from office of Manesty by the Court of Directors on 1 January 1796. The suspension was in connection with Manesty’s dispute with the Ottoman authorities originating in 1791, which had led him to remove the Residency to Grain [Kuwait] in 1793. Manesty had actually re-established himself in Bussora by September 1795, before Crow and LeMessurier arrived from Bombay [Mumbai], and he was officially reinstated in July 1796. However, Crow and LeMessurier only transferred back control of the Residency when they received orders to return to Bombay in September 1796.Letters dated 31 January to 27 April 1793 are written from Maghil [Al Maqal] ‘near Bussora’. Manesty left the city at the end of April 1793 and from 18 July 1793 to 5 March 1795 he writes from Grain (ff 2-43). From 9 October 1795 (f 45), following Manesty’s return in the previous month, his letters are written from Maghil or Bussora.The enclosures Manesty refers to are mostly not included in the volume, although his letters regularly incorporate extracts of his communications to the President in Council, Political Department [Bombay] and the Governor-General in Council [Bengal]. Manesty occasionally writes to individual members of the Court of Directors, lobbying for an increase in his pay and allowances and lamenting his pecuniary difficulties and unsettled claims upon the Company (see ff 356-359, ff 478-482, and ff 524-525).The letters concern matters including:The re-establishment of the Bussora Residency, notably Manesty’s detailed account, dated 28 August 1796 (ff 80-184), of his negotiations between February and October 1795 with the Bacha [Pāshā] of Bagdat [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā of Baghdad] for the restoration of the Factory and Residency at Bussora and re-establishment of relations. The negotiations were via their respective mediators, Coja Cawork Doud [Khawājah Kevork Dāwūd], the Company’s ‘broker and linguist’ (f 82) at the Bussora Residency, and the Mussaleem of Bussora [Mutasallim, Ottoman Governor of Basra]. The account details Manesty’s dispute with the Ottoman authorities, which developed following the murder in Bussora of a wealthy Jewish merchant in March 1791, the arrest of an Armenian subject, protracted sectarian clashes between Jews and Christians in Bussora, and the Ottoman authorities’ rebuttal of Manesty’s claims that Armenians came under British protectionManesty’s objections to Crow and LeMessurier, regarding control of the Bussora Residency and Factory in 1796The movement of, and events concerning, Company ships and private merchant vessels trading to, from and via Bussora, and the conveyance and landing of their cargoes, notably woollens imported to Bushire [Bushehr] and Bussora from BengalThe marine conveyance, via Bussora, of mail packets (official Despatches to and from to the Court of Directors in London and British government in India, and other mail), including: routes taken; delays; lost or missing items; and packets captured or stolenThe overland transmission of mail packets, via Aleppo, notably matters concerning: routes; security; couriers; and Manesty’s communications with the Company’s agents at Aleppo, including Louisa Abbott, who took on duties of the Agent (f 368) following the death of her husband Robert Abbott in 1799 until the appointment of John BarkerManesty’s management of the Residency and Factory, including: communications with the British embassy at Constantinople [Istanbul] and relations with Peter Tooke, Company Agent there; increasingly fractious relations with Harford Jones (appointed first Company Resident in Bagdat in September 1798) notably over the latter’s official status; and relations with the Ottoman authorities in Bussora and BagdatVarious events, and Manesty’s activities, within Ottoman territory and the seas between Bussora and India, in relation to the wars with France [French Revolutionary Wars 1792-1802], notably: the monitoring of French ships, and intelligence communications with British naval officers; surveillance of French emissaries such as Abbé Beauchamp [Pierre-Joseph de Beauchamp]; efforts to combat French influence in the Ottoman Empire and Persia [Iran], especially after the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 headed by General Buonaparte [Napoleon Bonaparte]; the activities of John Lewis Reinaud (former Assistant Resident at Bussora) to influence the Bacha of Bagdat against the French; Manesty’s highlighting of the potential threat to British dominance in India and recommendation that an English military force be despatched to protect British interests; the defeat of French forces by a British fleet at the Battle of the Nile, August 1798; the unsuccessful French siege of St Jean d’Acre 1799 [Akko or Acre]; the British fleet and army sent against the French in Egypt, March 1801; and the Convention for the Evacuation of Egypt and the Definitive Treaty of Peace between Britain and France [Treaty of Amiens, signed 25 March 1802]Affairs in the Persian Gulph [Gulf], notably trade relations with Muscat and efforts to avert the establishment of a French presence there, and Manesty’s proposals for stationing intelligence officers at Muscat and Bushire (f 373)Internal Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] affairs, including: political conflicts; relations with local tribes; and the Bagdat Bacha’s expeditions against the Whahabee Shaik [Wahhābī Shaikh] Abdul Aziz [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Muḥammad Āl Sa‘ūd, Emir of Diriyah]Intelligence relating to the Company’s campaign in India against Tippoo Sultan [Tīpū Sulṭān, Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore], including reports of Tippoo’s defeat in May 1799 (f 406)The spread of plague in Ottoman Turkey from 1800 and Manesty’s actions in July 1802 to secure the British establishment at Bussora and preserve communications and trade between India and Europe following the arrival of plague at Bagdat, including requisition of the Teignmouthas a floating Factory and removal of Bussora Factory staff to Maghil (ff 556-606)Harford Jones’s deteriorating relations with the Bacha of Bagdat in July 1801, and Manesty’s apparent efforts to restore the British reputation and the position of the Bagdat Residency (ff 498-516)The death of the Bacha of Bagdat (f 568) in 1802 and arrangements for his successor, Ali Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā]Manesty’s temporary embarkation of the Bussora establishment on the Furyin June 1803, following a rupture with the Ottoman authorities [he does not elaborate, however the incident arose over the apparent ‘violation’ of the ‘honour’ of an allegedly Egyptian Christian woman] (ff 606-607).Physical description: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 608; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.The sequence contains one foliation anomaly, f 16a.
82. ‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
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- Abstract: Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva, the Khanate of Khelat [Kalat], Afghanistan, Persia [Iran], Yemen, Nejd [Najd], Oman, Zanzibar, and Turkish Arabia.The correspondence related to the state of affairs in Oman and Zanzibar [Sultanate of Muscat and Oman] covers: the violation of the rights of British subjects at Sohar [Suhar] by Ibrahim bin Ghes [Ibrāhīm bin Qais Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Governor of Sohar]; ‘the application of Seyd Toorkee [Sayyid Turkī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] for payment of the Zanzibar subsidy’; ‘the alleged importation of slaves on the Arabian Coast under the French flag’ from Zanzibar; the hostilities by sea between Syed Ibrahim bin Ghes and the Sooltan [Sulṭān] of Muscat; the re-lease of the Customs Revenue of Zanzibar by Syud Burgash bin Saeed bin Sooltan [Sayyid Barghash bin Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān]; and ‘An account of the Tenets of the IBADHI Sect of ‘Oman’, translated from an Arabic manuscript work by the Political Agent at Muscat.The correspondence related to the state of affairs in the Khanate of Khelat covers: a raid committed from Khelat territory into Persian territory by a Persian subject; the demarcation of the Perso-Khelat boundary; the disputes between the Khan of Khelat and his nobles; the Marri [also spelled in the volume as Murree] and Bogtee [Bugti] tribes’ activities; trade routes and trading activities; proposed measures for preserving the peace of the Sind [Sindh] frontier; and petitions raised by a number of Sirdars from Khelat.The correspondence contains copies of Cabul [Kabul] diaries reporting on the state of affairs in Afghanistan. The diaries include news on the deputation of an envoy from the Khan of Khiva to the Amir of Afghanistan, Sher Ali Khan [Shīr ‘Alī Khān, also spelled in the volume as Shere]; the spread of cholera; military operations; the appointment and dismissal of local governors; the Budukshan [Badakhshan, also spelled in the volume as Badakshan] affair; the boundary between Afghanistan and Bokhara [Bukhara]; relations between Afghanistan and the Russian Empire; and correspondence between the Governor General of Russian Toorkistan [Turkestan] and the Amir in relation to border affairs.The correspondence contains news reports of affairs at Aden covering: the spread of cholera at Aden and Hodeida [Al Hudaydah]; the attack on Hodeida by the Arab tribe of Asseerees [‘Asīr]; accounts of the trade routes leading to Aden and the principal tribes in the neighbourhood with which the Government of India have treaty relations; the Political Resident at Aden, Major-General Charles William Tremenheere, visiting Lahej territory; the advance of Turkish troops in Yemen; reports of incidents on board British ships; military action towards the Munsooree [Al-Manṣūrī, also al-Manāṣīr] and the Soobaihee [al-Ṣabīha, also spelled in the volume as Soobahees] tribes of Yemen; an agreement signed between the Soobaihee chiefs of Yemen and the Political Resident at Aden related to roads safety; a detailed ‘report of the Arab tribes and the vicinity of Aden’ prepared by Captain William Francis Prideaux, Assistant to the Political Resident at Aden; and an agreement signed between the tribe of the Foodthlees [al-Faḍlī] of Yemen and the Political Resident at Aden.Other topics covered in the volume are:The military operations of Russia in Central Asia‘The subject of the sovereignty of Kohuk [Kuhak, also spelled in the volume as Kuak]’ with detailed description of the Perso-Baloch frontierThe employment by the Ottoman Government of an English diver, James Thomas, in seeking for pearls on the Arab Coast of the Persian Gulf‘Complaint made by the Persian Government of instructions having been issued to Her Majesty’s representative at Gwadur [Gwadar] to recognise Charbar [Chah-Bahar, a town on the Makran coast of Persian Baluchistan] as belonging to Muscat’‘A piratical attack on the British India Steam Navigation Company’s steam ship Cashmereat Busreh [Basra, also spelled in the volume as Busrah]’The claim of Hajee Moosa Meymennee [Ḥājī Mūsa Mīmanī, also spelled in the volume as Meymenee], a British Indian subject, to compensation for ‘the wheat supplied by him to the people of Bushire [Bushehr] under a compulsory order of the Persian Government’‘The infraction of the interdict on the export of grain and provisions from Persian ports’An account by Dr David Livingstone, Her Majesty’s Consul in Inner Africa, of his explorations in Central Africa‘The trade between India and the Persian Gulf, and the proposal for a new Commercial Treaty with Persia’The dispute between Turkey and Bahrein [Bahrain] concerning the murder of a Turkish messenger, and other Bahrein AffairsThe Turkish expedition to NejdNews of the arrival and departure of ships at Kateef [Qatif], Ojair [Al-Uqayr], Ras Tanoorah [Ras Tanura] and other portsThe request of Messrs Gray, Paul and Company for permission to place steam barges at Bushire for the purpose of landing and shipping cargoRelations between the Russian authorities and the Turkoman tribes‘Captain St. John’s explorations in Persia, and containing information on certain points of Persian geography’The arbitral opinion given by Major General on special mission Frederick John Goldsmid, in the matter of the Seistan [Sistan] arbitrationNews of appointments of British Agents and other officials in various locations in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan.Among the main correspondents in the volume are: Charles Umpherston Aitchison, the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department; D C Macnabb, Officiating Commissioner and Superintendent, Peshawur [Peshawur] Division; C Alison, Her Britannic Majesty’s Minister at Teheran [Tehran]; Ronald Thomson, Her Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires at Teheran; Colonel C Herbert, Her Majesty’s Political Agent at Baghdad; H LePoer Wynne, Under Secretary to the Government of India; Captain G J Stevens, Commandant, Aden Troop; Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Dr John Kirk, Acting Political Agent and Her Majesty’s Consul at Zanzibar; Major Edward Charles Ross, Her Majesty’s Political Agent and Consul at Muscat; Captain C Grant, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Captain C H Harrison, Political Agent at Khelat.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 985; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an intermittent pagination sequence.
83. 'No 413 Vol 19. Revised Commercial Treaty with Muscat'
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- Abstract: This file concerns the conclusion of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation with the Sultan of Muscat, Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd on 19 March 1891. The new treaty was modelled on a recently concluded treaty with Zanzibar. It superseded the Treaty of Commerce of May 1839 and its main purpose was to shut out French interests and influence in Muscat.Correspondence in the volume is between the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and the Political Agent at Muscat, as well as British officials in the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Foreign Office and at Zanzibar. There are also copies of correspondence from the Sultan of Muscat.The file has an index on folio 2A. Subjects within the file include: the exclusion of Cape of Good Hope from the Treaty (folios 88, 94); importation of arms and ammunition (folio 37); the expiration of the Treaty (folios 108, 112-114); British protection for Goanese subjects under the Treaty (folios 144-148, 154-156); modifications to the Treaty (folios 119-120); accession to Natal (folios 88, 94); accession to Newfoundland (folios 95-96); draft of the Treaty (folios 8-17, 22-31); draft protocol (folios 74-77); accession to Queensland (folios 95-96); draft of Revised Treaty (1904-1905) (folios 138-170); Separate Declaration by Sultan as to non-cession of his dominions (folios 54-57, 61-62); treaty executed but not-ratified (folios 49-53); Zanzibar Commercial Treaty (1886) (folios 18-21, 40-48).Physical description: Foliation: Foliation numbers are circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. They begins on the title page, on number 1B, and end on the last folio of writing, on number 170. The file contains the following foliation amendments: folios 1A-B; folios 2A-C; folios 4A-B; folios 78A-B; folios 79A-B.
84. Rooke: Journal
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- Abstract: Journal of the voyage of the Rooke(also spelled Rook), from England to Suratt [Surat] and China (Captain George Symons, also spelled Simmonds and Simmons), 1699-1702. The Rookewas at Gumberoon (also referred to as Bunderrabassa) [Bandar Abbas] from 12-29 December 1701.The Journal consists of daily entries recording navigational information, winds, weather, contact with English ships, sightings of other vessels, and general remarks.The Journal includes a sketch of the ship in the harbour at Maderas [Madeira] (folio 4), a report of an incident of piracy (folio 6), the report that a crewmember had apparently drowned himself (folio 13), sketches of seabirds and whales (folios 14-15), a sketch of the ship in a storm (folio 16), a sketch of a Maldive boat (folio 25), a sketch of the ship at Quylon [Quilon] (folio 27), sketches of coastline, a sketch of the ship at Carwarr [Karwar] (folio 29), a sketch of the ship at Goa (folio 30), a descriptive account entitled 'Some Descriptions of the Kingdom of China' (folios 48-49), and a description of Bandar Abbas (folios 80-81).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 87; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 88-125, which have not been digitised.