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1. ‘Mocha. Certain Surat merchants request that protection may be afforded to their Agents & merchandize in the Red Sea’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; merchants from Surat; William Augustus Pelly, Collector of Continental Customs and Excise.The item concerns a petition from the merchants of Surat asking that their agents and merchandise in the Red Sea might be protected; all British subjects are offered help in removing their property from Mocha when it was about to be evacuated by the Egyptian troops.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No. 10, Draft 31, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3302, [Season] 1842’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 255 and terminates at f 261, 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.
2. ‘PERSIA. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, NOTABLES, MERCHANTS, AND CLERGY, COMPILED BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. PICOT, Military Attaché at Teheran.’
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- Abstract: Printed collection of biographical notices, as well as comments on élite dynasties and tribes of Persia [Iran], written over a period of twelve months and completed in December 1897 by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot (Military Attaché, Teheran [Tehran]), then Acting Oriental Secretary in Her Majesty’s Legation. Amendments were added up until 23 January 1898. The author presented the manuscript to Charles H Hardinge (First Secretary, Foreign Office, London), 27 January 1898. The latter forwarded it to the Marquis of Salisbury (Prime Minister), 28 January 1898, who received it a month later (28 February 1898). The title page (f 1) is stamped as having belonged previously to the Government of India’s Library of the Foreign Office, Simla, where this copy was received with two other copies (two for Simla and one for Calcutta [Kolkata], three copies in total) and a letter from the Secretary of the Political and Secret Department, dated 8 July 1898 (location not disclosed). The contents are marked secret (originally ‘confidential,’ crossed out), and specified as, ‘For the use of Officers in Her Majesty’s Service only.’The printed work comprises two ‘inclosures’ [enclosures]: firstly, Picot’s letter of presentation to Hardinge (f 2v), prefaced by Hardinge’s letter of presentation to the Marquis of Salisbury (f 2); secondly, the treatise proper (ff 3r-60v). The contents page (f 3v) lists four main sections, but without corresponding page references. Following a brief introduction (f 4), an alphabetic register [index] of names (ff 4v-11v), and a glossary of titles and terms (ff 12r-13v), the work is divided into eight chapters comprising numbered entries. The first four chapters deal with the royal family in Teheran (forty-five entries over ff 14r-19v), the notables of Teheran (ninety-seven entries over ff 20r-32v), the merchants of Teheran (twenty-eight entries over ff 33r-35v), and the clergy of Teheran (eleven entries over ff 36-37). The remaining four chapters focus on the provinces of Fars (thirty-eight entries over ff 37v-44v), Ispahan [Isfahan] (eleven entries over ff 45-47), Khorasan (fifty-nine entries over ff 47v-57v), and Tabriz (twenty-two entries over ff 58-60).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 60; 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 pagination sequence.
3. ‘Unfriendly conduct of the Dola of Mocha towards the Surat Merchants’
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- Abstract: The item consists of extracts of Political Letters and Political Consultations from the Government of Bombay concerned with the action taken by the Resident at Mocha, Captain Bagnold, in response to a dispute between Surat merchants and the Dola [Governor] of Mocha. The dispute relates to outstanding accounts owed to the merchants for goods supplied to the Dola. Topics covered include:Instructions to the Resident at Mocha regarding the use of an East India Company cruiser with the order not to take action unless authorised by Henry Salt, Consul General at CairoThe Resident at Mocha’s and the Consul General at Cairo's differing views on how to settle the disputeThe Pacha [Pasha] of Egypt's offer to write to the Imaum of Senna [Imam of Ṣanʻā', Yemen] on behalf of the Company and the Pacha's general concerns regarding the weaknesses of the Imaum's governmentThe Resident at Mocha’s unauthorised action of requesting Captain Bremer to bring his squadron to Mocha and the Company’s concerns that this move may have caused the Pacha of Egypt and the Turkish Government to suspect that the Company is attempting to widen its influence in the Red SeaThe death of a Turkish soldier as a result of an affray between ‘some of the Factory’ at Mocha and a group of Turkish soldiers, and the Company’s wishes to stress that this incident was unconnected to the presence of the squadron at MochaThe successful settlement of the dispute due to the actions of the Resident at Mocha.The correspondence consists mainly of letters between the Resident at Mocha and William Newnham, Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay. The other correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Court of Directors; the Agent at Surat; the Secretary of the Government of Bombay; the Secretary of the Supreme Government at Fort William; Syed Abdulla [Sayyid ‘Abdullāh, of Mocha]; Imaum H Mehdee [Al-Qasimi, Mahdi Abdullah, Imam of Yemen]; Henry Salt, Consul General at Cairo; Stratford Canning, Ambassador to Constantinople; Admiral William Hall Gage; Captain Bremer; Captain Robert Taylor, Political Agent at Bussora [Basra].The item also contains a table of contents noting the page number, date, author and recipient of each letter (f 195 recto) as well as a copy of the petition against the Dola of Mocha made by the Surat merchants (ff 203 recto – 206 verso).The bulk of the item dates from the years 1826 and 1827.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'P.C. 681, Draft 367, 1829/30', ‘Collection No. 9’ and 'Examiner's Office 1829'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 194, and terminates at 270, 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
4. Miscellaneous Marine Papers
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- Abstract: This volume consists of various documents mostly relating to East India Company shipping.The documents include the following:Correspondence relating to surviving passengers who had been on board the shipwrecked Dutch East India Company ship Woestduyn, and various receipts for related expenses dated 1779-80, several of which are written in Dutch (folios 32-38 and 41-46)Two lists of East India Company ships lost or captured between 1760 and 1791An extract from a journal for a voyage of HMS Medeafrom England to India and back again, between February 1782 and January 1784A memorial from George French, Assistant Deputy Master Attendant in Bengal, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, requesting that he be recommended to the Governor-General of India in Council for the office of Deputy Master Attendant, 28 April 1795A copy of a printed pamphlet entitled 'Fair State of the Case Between The EAST INDIA COMPANY, and The Owners of Ships now in their Service To which are added CONSIDERATIONS on Mr BROUGH’S PAMPHLET, concerning The EAST INDIA COMPANY’S SHIPPING; by Dalrymple', printed 1786A copy of a letter from the Board of Trade to Sir John Shore, Governor-General of India in Council, and a copy of a minute of the Board, regarding a proposal by British merchants relating to the transportation of commodities from Bengal to London, dated 26 May 1795Queries by Lord Castlereagh, President of the Board of Control, into the effects likely to be produced by the East India Company employing ships of 800 rather than 1,200 tons, dated 13 May 1803Copies of letters from Bombay merchants to Jonathan Duncan, President and Governor in Council of Bombay, dated 4 July and 17 October 1804, requesting measures to be taken against Arab shippingA record of the position of HMS Howeeach day at noon, on a journey from Bengal to England, between August 1805 and January 1806A copy of a memorial to the Governor-General of India in Council from merchants, agents and others engaged in the export trade from Calcutta to London, dated 20 November 1807, complaining of hardships experienced due to the great increase in the rate of tonnageA list of passengers on board seven missing ships, c 1809Proposed instructions to Lieutenant Robert Moorsom to carry out a survey to ascertain the most appropriate stations for the shelter, refitting, refreshment, or protection of squadrons, ships of war, convoys, or East India Company ships, in the East Indies, during different seasons and in various circumstances, in case of future war, c 1789Bills and receipts for instruments purchased and delivered to Moorsom for the survey, 1787-89Correspondence (and an abstract of correspondence), mostly between Moorsom, Lieutenant Halsted, and the Board of Control, regarding the mathematical instruments which Moorsom was provided with for the survey (which were subsequently transferred to Lieutenant Halsted), being returned to the Board of Control, dated 1790-1803A catalogue for an auction by Mr Christie of a Library of books, mathematical instruments sent by the Board of Control, and some firearms, to take place on 23, 25 and 26 June 1810Copies of accounts of items purchased by the owners of the ship Bombayfrom various suppliers, dated 1810.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 370; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: there are multiple pagination sequences which appear intermittently.
5. Affairs at Aden and Within its Vicinity, and at Hodeida
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1853, dated 13 January 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-9. Enclosure numbers 3-6 are dated 12 December 1852 to 5 January 1853.Enclosure numbers 3 and 5 consist of two letters from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The letters report:The state of affairs at Aden and within its vicinity, including an incident in which a 'marauding party' of forty men of the Subiee [aṣ-Ṣubayḥī] 'tribe' attacked a kafila [caravan] of camels and plundered the goods it was carryingActions taken by Haines in response to complaints from merchants at Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] claiming British protection that they had been treated unjustly by the Turkish [Ottoman] government of Hodeida in relation to increased customs dues, and in being forcibly removed from their houses so that Turkish soldiers could be accommodated in them.Enclosure number 5 includes enclosed copies of correspondence between Haines and the Senior Naval Officer at Aden, Charles William Montrion, and correspondence between other Indian Navy officers.Enclosures 4 and 6 are minutes by the Governor of Bombay, directing that copies of Haines's letters be sent to the Government of India and the Secret Committee, and approving of Haines's reported actions.Numbers 7-9, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Times, the Bombay Overland Telegraph & Courier, and the Bombay Overland Gazettenewspapers dated 13 January 1853, are noted as missing.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-9, on folio 48. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
6. Letters from Harford Jones to John Malcolm
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- Abstract: Copies of four letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], sent from Bagdad and dated 20 November-30 December 1800.The correspondence mainly concerns Jones's attempts to procure finance for Malcolm's mission in Persia, including a consignment of specie sent by Jones via Aga Mohammed Salah [Āghā Muḥammad Sāliḥ], a merchant in Cazvene [Qazvin]. The correspondence also covers developments in the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the dispatch of cossids [messengers] from Bagdad to Persia, and plague in the region.Also attached is an invoice for the specie sent by Jones to Cazvene.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
7. Bagdad Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 72 of 1843, dated 2 October 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 1-21 September 1843.The papers concern the conduct of the Political Agency in Bagdad [Political Agency in Turkish Arabia, i.e. Ottoman Iraq, based in Baghdad] regarding matters of trade, following complaints by British merchants residing in Bagdad that ‘native servants’ from the Agency have been carrying out extensive trade, to the detriment of the British merchants’ interests. Also covered is the appointment of Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson as Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, as successor to Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Taylor. In addition, the papers discuss a request by the Pascha [Pāshā] of Bagdad to have a steam vessel placed at his service.The correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of India and the Chief Secretary to the Government to Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (14 folios)
8. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 29 of 1850, dated 11 May 1850.Enclosure No. 3, dated 28 April 1850, is a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, reporting on affairs at Aden and within its vicinity. Haines states that ‘the several Arab Tribes’ adjacent to Aden are at peace with each other, the roads leading to Aden are ‘unmolested’, daily supplies are regular and abundant, and that no smallpox or other contagious disease exists at Aden or in the neighbourhood.Enclosure No. 4, dated 20 April 1850, is a letter from Haines to Malet, forwarding a report from the Senior Naval Officer at Aden station, Captain John Parke Sanders, commanding the Honourable Company’s sloop of war Elphinstone, reporting on affairs at Jiddah [Jeddah, also spelled Judda in this item], Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] and Mocha. Sanders reports on matters including complaints from the ‘British Native merchants’ (also referred to as ‘Indian Merchants’) at Jiddah of the (in Haines’s words) ‘impositions, exactions, and other unlawful and arbitrary proceedings’ (folio 5) of the Turkish [Ottoman] Pasha of Jiddah, Haysb Pasha [Ḥasīb Pāshā], towards them, and the perceived lack of support and protection they had received from the British Vice Consul there.Enclosure Nos. 5-6, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Timesand the Bombay Overland Telegraphdated 11 May 1850, are recorded as missing in a note dated 31 October 1906.Physical description: 1 item (9 folios)
9. Coll 30/31 'Hasa Coast; Entry of Hindu Merchants into Hasa; Attitude of Ibn Saud'
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- Abstract: This file contains correspondence pertaining to the re-entry of Hindu merchants to al-Hasa and Qatif after a number of them had been ordered to leave in 1928.The majority of the correspondence in the file is between British officials, but it also contains a limited amount of letters that were exchanged between British diplomatic staff in Jeddah and the King of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and one of his closest advisors, Yusuf Yassin.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 58; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
10. Survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company's Cruiser Ternate
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- Abstract: A survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company cruisers the Ternateand the Sylph(1810-1811).Folios 23-142 contain a report of proceedings on board the Ternate, 1 January-25 September 1811. The report contains:The daily entries for the voyage from Bombay [Mumbai] to Duraja [Darsah] (15 January 1811), Abdel Curia [Abd al-Kuri] (16 January 1811), Cape Guardafui (18 January 1811), Cape Bassas (29 January 1811), Magadosha [Mogadishu] (2 February 1811), Brava [Baraawe] (3 February 1811), Juba [Jubba] (4 February 1811), Island of Keewyaoo [Kiwayu] (6 February 1811), Island of Patté [Paté] (7 February 1811), Formosa Bay [Ungwana Bay] (15 February 1811), Mombass [Mombasa] (18 February 1811), Island of Pemba (21 February 1811) and Zanzibar (23 February 1811)The daily entries for the voyage from Zanzibar to Tumbat Island [Tumbatu Island] (10 April 1811), Kewyoo Island [Kiwayu Island] (11 April 1811), Cape d'Orfici (21 April 1811), Cape Felix (22 April 1811), Bird Island (24 April 1811), Babelmandel [Bab-el-Mandeb] (26 April 1811) and Mocha (27 April 1811)The daily entries for the voyage from Mocha to Cape Israel (17 May 1811), Gedam Island (19 May 1811) and Judda [Jeddah] (27 May 1811)The daily entries for the voyage from Judda to Sabaya Islands [Jabal al-Sabaya] (8 August 1811), Mocha (10 August 1811), Babelmandel (29 August 1811), Mette Island (1 September 1811), Bird Island (6 September 1811) and arrival at Surat (23 September 1811) (ff 23-142).Smee describes the Island of Patté as being in a 'very troubled state' owing to the rival claims of two cousins to the 'Sooltanship', with the younger claimant 'Sooltan Ahmed [Sultan Ahmad bin Shaykh al-Nabhani]' having the support of the stronger faction, and keeping his elder cousin confined to a 'small mud fort near the Town'. Smee provides a detailed report of his reception, negotiations, and eventual escape from Paté (ff 55-67). He also provides detailed accounts of his meetings with the 'Hakeem' [Hakim] of Zanzibar, 'Yacood' [i.e. Yaqut bin Ambar al-Habashi], whom Smee describes as being a 'Eunuch Slave of the Imaum of Muscat [i.e. Sulṭān Sa‘īd II bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] born in Amhara, a Province of Abyssinia' (ff 81-92), which is followed by a 'Description of the Island of Zanzibar or Zingebaur as it is called by the Natives' (ff 99-110). The latter includes a description of the slave market together with moral arguments against slavery (ff 103-105). Smee was later received by the Dola [Dawla] of Mocha, who informed him that the 'Imaum' of Senna [i.e. Imam of San‘a’, Al-Mutawakkil ala ‘Allah Ahmad bin ‘Ali al-Qāsimī], had taken the field against Wahabee [the Wahhabi], and marched towards the rebel states of Hodeida [Hudayda] Lopeia [Luhayya] and Bettefackie [Bayt al-Faqih], and he wished the cruiser to remain for the protection of Mocha Roads. Smee had to decline the Dawla's request, however, as it would impede his delivery of dispatches to the Viceroy of Egypt [Kavalali Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha] and his planned voyage to Jeddah (ff 122-23 and f 160). He continued his voyage and subsequently met the Sharif of Mecca [Ghālib bin Musā’id al-Hāshimī], and 'Arabee Jellanee' [‘Arabi Jilani], the principal merchant at Jeddah, to whom he entrusted the Governor's letters for the Viceroy of Egypt and the 'Commanding Officer of the Turkish Forces' [i.e. Tusun Pasha] (ff 127-28).Folios 163-211 contain a report by Lieutenant Hardy, including:A description of the coast of Africa from Cape Guardafui to Magadixa [Mogadishu], Marca [Merca], Brava and Zanzibar, and the return voyage of the Company's Brig Sylphto Chaul (12 October 1811)An extract from the log refuting James Bruce's hypothesis about the monsoon on the east coast of AfricaAn account of different rivers on the coast from Zualiffe towards Mozambique (ff 188-99)The Glossaries of Swahili and "Galla" [Oromo] vocabularies compiled by Lieutenant Hardy (ff 199-206)The minutes of the Government-in-Council on the actions taken, and the information collected by Captain Smee and Lieutenant Hardy during the survey, including an application from Smee for financial compensation (ff 207-11).Hardy describes the arrival of the brother-in-law of the 'King of Johanna' [Sultan Alawi bin Husayn Mwinye Fani] at Zanzibar in 'great distress for Provisions and Clothes'. The party had earlier departed from Johanna [Anjouan] with 'some Portuguese Prisoners' for Mozambique, and included 'five Gentlemen [,] one Captain and 12 Sailors, besides thirty two Slaves most of them femini [sic] ones, which they said were a present from the Governor of Mozambique [António Manuel de Melo e Castro de Mendonça] to the King of Johanna'. Hardy was later approached by the Vizier of the deposed Sultan of Paté to help 'enable him to repair his boat, she having run on shore in bad weather whilst attempting to get to Mombass to secure his property' (ff 166-67).The volume also includes:A letter from Captain Thomas Smee, Commander of the Ternate, to W J Hamilton, Secretary to the Government and the Marine Department, 23 December 1810, requesting that the Sylphaccompany the Ternatein exploring the coast of Africa, and for the latter to be allowed to transport 1000 Rupees' worth of presents for the 'natives necessity' (ff 3-4)A letter from Deputy Secretary James Farish to Captain Smee, 31 December 1810, containing sailing instructions for the exploration of the African coast from 'Cape Gardafui to the Southward, as far as may be found compatible with the season of the year', with particular attention to the Somali Coast from Cape Gardafui [Guardafui] to Brava [Baraawe], and proceeding to the Island of Paté, 'a civilized and mercantile resort' to meet the Prince [i.e. Sultan]. Farish requested Smee to 'endeavor to learn which of the Rivers, that reach the sea on that [East African] coast may be with most probability conjectured to give passage to the waters of the Niger'. He further instructed Smee to continue sailing southwards from Paté 'as far as the Island of Zanzibar, in which, as belonging to our ally the Imaum of Muscat, you may rely on a friendly reception'. Smee was directed to collect as much information as possible about the southern branch of the Nile, the Muslim Principality of Hurhur [Harar], the Christian states of Yafat/Ifat and Shoa, and the 'great in-land Cities (under Mussulman Princes) of Tombuctoo [Timbuktu], Hoolsaye [Hawsa] and Cashna [Katsina]' (ff 4-13)An extract of a letter from Captain David Seton, 21 September 1801, on his failure to obtain any information about Housay [Hawsa] and Tumbuctoo and providing certain details about Burrava [Baraawe], the southern branch of the Nile [i.e. the White Nile], Melinda [Malindi] and the trade in slaves, silk and cotton on the east coast of Africa (ff 13-14)An extract from a memoir by Ibrahim Pirkar, 21 September 1800, about the port of Burbureea [Berbera] and its trade with the ports located along the Gulph of Kutch, Muskat [Muscat], Mocha, Mukulla [Mukalla] and Judda [Jeddah], the dearth of information about Tumbuctoo and Kassinan [Katsina Emirate], and the death of an Englishman reported by the merchant Hajee Mohummud [Haji Muhammad al-Habashi] of Abyssinia [Ethiopia] (ff 14-15)The translation of a report from Ibrahim Purkar to Governor of Bombay Jonathan Duncan, 26 February 1809 about Burbureea, Mocha, Yuf’at [Ifat], Gondur [Gondar], Goojam [Gojjam], Begamdur [Begemder], Lasna [Lasta] and Madramra (ff 15-17)A description of the rivers of Jenne [Djenné] called Zambexe [Zambezi], from the Island of Mozambique to Quilimane [Quelimane], Luabo, Tete, Lupatia [Lupata], Kingdom of Tanbard, Massangane, Tipui, Chicooa [Chicora], Zumbo and Manica (ff 17-21)A list of different tribes composing the cargo of slaves taken by the East India Company ship Sir Edward Hughes. The list includes the names of seventeen different tribes (ff 21-22)A receipt from the Sultan of Paté, Ahmad bin Shaykh al-Nabhani, listing the articles received from the Ternateand dated at Paté Harbour, 10 February 1811, with an additional note from Captain Smee, complaining that they had been 'extorted' from him by the Sultan (ff 142-43)A letter from Lieutenant Hardy to Captain Smee, dated 25 February 1811, informing him of the 'many bad and dangerous qualities' of the Sylphas a Schooner, and suggesting that it be 'rigged as a Brig' (ff. 143-48)A committee held by Captain Smee, Lieutenant Hardy, Lieutenant James Arthur, and Assistant Surgeon George Wigham at Zanzibar Harbour on 1 April 1811 to consider the contents of a letter received from the 'Nacqudahs' [i.e. Nakhudas or Captains] of 'three vessels belonging to the Port of Surat, and one to Bownagur [Bhavnagar] setting forth the ill treatment they are subject to from the Hakeem of Zanzibar and ‘soliciting on the part of their several owners, the services of the Hon:ble Company's Brig Sylphthat she may 'remain with them and afford a security to them’ (ff 148-51)'A Comprehensive List of Dialects, in use on the Coast of East Africa', compiled by Captain Smee on the basis of information provided by the merchants Mahomed Abdelriuman Ben Omar Seomary [Muhammad Abd al-Rahman bin Omar al-Sumari] (Somali and 'Galla' [Oromo]); Syed Moother Ben Syed Aboo Booker of Baraawe [Sayyid Mudhar bin Sayyid Abu Bakr al-Barawi] (Somali and 'Galla' [Oromo]); and Mahomed Ben Caliph of Zanzibar [Muhammad bin Khalifa al-Zinjibari] (Swahili) (ff 151-56, and f 87 and f 89)The exchanges of letters between Captain Smee and the British Agent in the Gulf of Arabia, Captain Henry Rudland, to: arrange for the treatment of sick crew members on board the Ternate; convince the 'Commandant' of Hudaydah, Hadjee Jewah Hussan [Haji Jawa Hasan] to release the ship Rahmanee[Rahmani] commanded by Nacooda Hadjee Hamood of Tellicherry [Nakhuda Haji Hammud Thalasiri]; convey a letter from the Governor of Bombay to the Viceroy of Egypt tactfully refusing the latter's request to furnish two warships for the war being waged against the Wahaby [Wahhabi]; and assess the suitability of the dhows Salamed Passand[Salamat Pasand] and Hamdee[Hamdi] for the transportation of 1000 bales of coffee from Mocha to Bombay on behalf of the East India Company (ff 156-62).Physical description: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 211; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-211; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
11. York: Journal
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- Abstract: The journal of a voyage to the East Indies on board the ship Yorkby Captain Peter Lascelles. The journal contains:The ‘List of Officers & Seamen on board the ship York from England to the East Indies 1760’ (ff 2-4)The ‘Names [and] Quality [of] Passengers’ (f 4)The Members of ‘Coll: Moriss’ Rejiment [sic]’ and of ‘Col: Parslows Rejim:t’ (ff 4-6)Names of ‘Women belonging to the Military’ (f 6)The daily entries for the voyage from Deptford to Gravesend (13 March 1760), the Downs (18 April 1760), Spithead (24 April 1760), the Lizard (10 May 1760), Island of Palma [La Palma] (30 May 1760), Island of Ferro [El Hierro] (1 June 1760) and Parnambucca [Pernambuco] (10 July 1760)The daily entries for the voyage from Parnambucca to Bay of All Saints (26 July 1760), Island of St Paul’s [Île Saint-Paul] (24 October 1760), Dundra Head [Dondra Head] (5 December 1760), Point de Galle (6 December 1760), Columbo [Colombo] (9 December 1760), Cape Comorin [Kanyakumari] (11 December 1760), Quilone [Kollam] (12 December 1760), Ansangor [Anchuthengu] (13 December 1760), Cochin [Kochi] (19 December 1760), Callicut [Kozhikode] (26 December 1760), Tellicherry [Thalassery] (27 December 1760), Pigeon Island [Netrani Island] (4 January 1761), Vingorla [Vengurla] Rocks (5 January 1761) and Bombay [Mumbai] (12 January 1761)List of officers and seamen on board the Yorkat leaving Bombay (ff 78-80)List of lascars aboard the York(f 80)List of passengers from Bombay (f 81)The daily entries for the voyage from Bombay to Surat (23 February 1761), Socatra [Socotra] (17 April 1761), Cape Gardafui [Cape Guardafui] (19 April 1761), Mount Felix (20 April 1761), Babelmandel Island [Jazirat Mayyun] (24 April 1761) and Mocha (25 April 1761)The daily entries for the voyage from Mocha to Babelmandel Island (23 July 1761), Mount Aden (25 July 1761), Mount Felix (27 July 1761) and Bombay (5 August 1761)The daily entries for the voyage from Bombay to Domus tree [Dumas] (23 August 1761), Basseen [Vasai] (18 September 1761), Cape Comorine (28 September 1761), Julius Nave (1 October 1761), Ballasore [Balasore] (16 October 1761) and Ingelie [Hijili] (25 October 1761)The daily entries for the voyage from Ingelie to Barabulla (24 December 1761), Point Palmiras (26 December 1761), Dunderhead [Dondra Head] (8 January 1762), Point de Gaul [Galle] (10 January 1762), Ansangor (16 January 1762), Cochin (21 January 1762), Callicut (23 January 1762), Tellicherry (24 January 1762), Cannannore [Kannur] (26 January 1762), Cape Ramas (6 February 1762), Vingorla Rocks (9 February 1762) and Bombay (18 February 1762)The daily entries for the voyage from Bombay to Tellicherry (22 April 1762), Cochin (4 May 1762), Quilone [Kollam] (8 May 1762), Cape Comorine (9 May 1762), Cape Legullas [Cape Agulhas] (5 July 1762), St Helena (2 August 1762), Rame Head (4 October 1762), Margate (30 November 1762) and Northfleet Hope (8 December 1762).Physical description: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 195; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.