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61. ‘Vol 224 1856/57 Bahrain; Abu Dhabi; Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah; Hamriya; Muscat and Bandar `Abbas; Slave Trade’
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence relating to a number of subjects, listed below. The principal correspondents throughout are Commander (James) Felix Jones, initially Acting Resident, then Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay.The volumes contain correspondence relating to events in the Gulf, and are arranged by subject as follows:Bahrain (folios 10-24); despatches from the Government of Bombay in response to 1854-55 events in Bahrain; theft of property from Banyan (Indian) traders in Bahrain, and the suspicious death of a Banyan trader;Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] (folios 25-65): the attack upon Abu Dhabi of the deposed Shaikh Sa’id bin Tahnun, in collaboration with Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr; an act of piracy off the Al-Qaṭīf coast;Shargah, Rasul Khymah [Ra’s al-Khaymah], and Himreeyah [Ḩamrīyah] (folios 66-127): an incident of piracy at Sharjah, and attempts by British officials to obtain compensation; conflict between Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr, ruler of Ra’s al-Khaymah, and the tribes of Ḩamrīyah; Wahhābī forces moving toward the Oman coast;Muscat and Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] (folios 128-62): investigation into the shipwreck and plunder of a vessel carrying pilgrims, and the murder of some of the vessel’s crew; the treatment of British subjects at Muscat; conflict and settlement between the Persian Government and Imam of Muscat over customs at Persian ports including Bandar-e ʻAbbās;The Slave Trade (folios 163-297): resources in the Gulf for fighting the maritime slave trade; Jones’s recommendations for improvements and changes to the policing of waters; the actions of the British Agent at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], in relation to diplomatic relations between Britain and Persia; the capture of a boat carrying slaves under Turkish colours.Physical description: Foliation: This item is in two parts and the foliation sequence runs through both volumes as a continuous sequence. The foliation sequence begins on the title page of part one and ends on the third sheet from the back of part two. The sequence uses numbers written in pencil, which can be found in the top-right corner of the recto side of each folio. An original pagination sequence is present between ff 11-297; these numbers are written in ink and can be found in the top left and top right of the verso and recto side respectively. The following foliation anomalies occur: 1, 1A and 1B.
62. 'Attempts of the French to obtain possession of the Island of Cameran in the Red Sea'
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- Abstract: This item consists primarily of copies of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Governments of Bengal and Bombay concerning the purchase of the Island of Cameran [Kamaran, also spelt Kameran, Kumran, and Camran] by Syed Mohamed Akil [Sayyid Muḥammad Aqil al-Ajaybi, also Sayyid Muḥammad Aqil al-Saqqaf, also spelt Seyud Mahomud Akil, Sueed Mooummud Akil] from Shereef Ahmood of Abu-Arish [Hammud bin Muḥammad Sulaymani, Sharif of Abu 'Arish, also referred to as Shaikh Hamood, Sherif of Aboo Aresh]. The letters discuss whether Mohamed Akil was acting for the French, and propose measures to prevent French influence in the Red Sea. This includes correspondence with Sir Edward Pellew, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station, about the ships HMS Dedaigneuse, HMS Psyche, East India Company cruisers Mornington, Ternate, and Panther, HMS Concorde, and HM Sloop Victor, and reports from their cruises.The item also features information on: Mohamed Akil's alleged taking of an American ship, the USS Essex of Salem; the murders of the Englishman Mr Carter, who was on board the Essex, and her captain (Joseph Orne); the massacre of the rest of the crew; and the sinking of the ship. There is also a description of Mohamed Akil's alleged murder of the French captain M Gaspard. The actions of the French privateer Le Vigilante, and the French frigate Piedmontoise[ Pièmontaise] are also mentioned.Correspondents include the Resident at Mocha, the Resident at Muscat, and the Broker at Mocha, and their informants, with letters about Mohamed Akil's movements, biography, and the likelihood of being able to try him for piracy, robbery, and murder.There is some commercial discussion of trading coffee, woollens, and gunpowder, and a political agreement with the Shereef Ahmood of Abu-Arish.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Political No. 7, Season 1808/1809, Draft 178, Para. 20'; and 'Examiner's Office, July 1808'.Physical description: The documents are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front of the item to the rear.
63. 'A Journall kept by me George P[..], Commander of the Shipp Scepter, For Surratt and Bombay in ye. Anno Domini 1695'.
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- Abstract: Journal of the voyage of the Sceptrefrom England to Bombay, October 1695-April 1697, and from Bombay bound for Mocho [Mocha], April-June 1697 (Captain George Phenney).The Journal consists of daily entries of information on navigation, winds, weather, contact with other ships, deaths of crewmembers, general observations, and transcripts of relevant documents.Entries include: sailing instructions given by Captain Warren, Commander of His Majesty's Ship the Windsor(folios 5-6); a list of the ship's officers, with an armorial seal (a cross moline within a border, an esquire's helmet, the crest a lion passant) against each name (folio 7); and instructions from the General and Council of Bombay, and commission to destroy and seize pirate vessels, 10 April 1697 (folios 26-27).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 33; 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 ending flyleaves.
64. 'Memorandum on the Drafts of Despatches regarding the Affairs of Muscat and Zanzibar'
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- Abstract: Printed memorandum, written by Henry Bartle Frere, member of the Council of India, London, between 15 and 20 July 1868. The document broadly discusses British imperial policy in Persia and the Persian Gulf, East Africa, and Western India. Its specific foci include the Zanzibar subsidy (payable to Muscat), Persia's desire for a naval presence in the Gulf, the suppression of piracy, the preferred nationality of the Agent at Muscat, and the protection of British subjects trading in the region. The memorandum contains proposals for change in the way the region is administered.Several postscripts consist of extensive extracts from correspondence between Frere and John Lawrence, Viceroy of India, between 23 March 1866 and 12 June 1866. Included within this is a table of trade statistics entitled: Statement showing the Value of Trade between the Port of Bombay and Persian Gulf (including Muscat), during the last five years, viz., from 1860-61 to 1864-65, as compared with the Trade twenty years ago, in 1844-45, signed by A F Bellasis, Commissioner of Customs, Bombay, 27 March 1866.Physical description: Foliation: ff 26-37.Pagination: there is an original, printed pagination system, from 1 to 24.
65. ‘Muscat – Claims of Saed Abu Buker on account of the plunder of his Bugla by the Arabs of Sohar.’
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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; the Court of Directors; Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Agent at Muscat; and Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns a claim for indemnification by Saied Abu Bakur [Sayyid Abu Bakr] for an incident of alleged piracy by the Jenaba [Jeneba] tribe on his bugla [baghla] at Soor [Sur, also called Sohar in the item]. There is a discussion of vessels using both Turkish and English colours for different purposes.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No.2 of No. 57, Draft 32, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3301, [Season] 1842’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 592 and terminates at f 607, 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.
66. ‘Muscat – Intelligence communicated by the Native Agent at – Vol: 11’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Heskeal bin Yusoof [Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting British Agent at Muscat. It is the eleventh in a series of twenty items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2180/106055, IOR/F/4/2180/106056, IOR/F/4/2180/106057, IOR/F/4/2180/106058, IOR/F/4/2180/106059, IOR/F/4/2180/106060, IOR/F/4/2181/106061, IOR/F/4/2181/106062, IOR/F/4/2181/106063, IOR/F/4/2181/106064, IOR/F/4/2181/106066, IOR/F/4/2181/106067, IOR/F/4/2181/106068, IOR/F/4/2181/106069, IOR/F/4/2181/106070, IOR/F/4/2181/106071, IOR/F/4/2181/106072, IOR/F/4/2181/106073, and IOR/F/4/2181/106074).The item concerns the search for the crew and nakhuda of a vessel which was set on fire, having been robbed and some of the crew murdered, allegedly by the nakhuda. The same incident is mentioned in IOR/F/4/2180/106058.The item also mentions multiple incidents of aggression between tribes in the Arabian Peninsula.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 282/47, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5573, Coll[ection]: 10, Collection No 6 of No 11’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 62, and terminates at f 72, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
67. 'Treaty with the Joasmee Pirates'
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- Abstract: The item consists of correspondence regarding a peace treaty between the East India Company and the Joasmee [Āl Qāsimī], and relations between the Joasmee and the Imam of Muscat.The correspondence consists mainly of letters between the Government of Bombay and the Resident at Muscat. It also includes letters from prominent members of the Joasmee and from Mullah Hussain [Molla Husayn], Ruler of Kishem [Qishm].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 255, and terminates at f 293, 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.
68. ‘Proposed negotiations with the Joasmee and Wahabee chiefs for the suppression of piracy.’
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- Abstract: This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the governments of Bengal and Bombay.The primary subjects are:The efforts of the Imam of Muscat to reinstate Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī] as Ruler of Rusul Khyma [Ra's al-Khaymah, and various spellings throughout]The hope that the treaty originally made between Britain and the Joasmee [Qawasim] in 1806 might be renewed and agreements made with other Gulf rulers, and the instructions given to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire [Bushehr], to this endReports of piracy in the Gulf, off the coasts of Cutch [Kutch] and Sind [Sindh], and around the port of Porebunder [Porbandar], and the actions taken to counter thisAn approach from Sauad ben Abdil Azees [Sa‘ūd bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd], Emir of Diriyah, seeking closer relations with Britain.The title page (f 208) of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No. 19, Season 1814/15, Draft 190’; and ‘Examiner’s Office, January 1815’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 208, and terminates at 250, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
69. 'Notes from Major Willock's Dispatches to the Secret Committee'
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- Abstract: The item consists of notes relating to communications sent by Major Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of Persia [Iran] in Tehran, to the Secret Committee, dated between 24 February and 17 April 1820. A list of the dispatches referred to in the notes is given on folio 501 and these communications are also noted in the margin when referenced. The dispatches concern British measures to counter ‘piracy’ in the Persian Gulph [Gulf], including the naval expedition against Ras-ul-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] in 1819, British plans to establish a settlement on an island in the Gulph, and the plans of Persia and the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat to take the island of Bahrein [Bahrain].Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)
70. 'Précis of correspondence regarding Trucial Chiefs, 1854-1905'
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- Abstract: The volume is a précis on the rulers and tribes of the Trucial Coast (now the United Arab Emirates). It was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha and printed in Calcutta [Kolkata] at the Government of India Central Printing Office, 1906.The volume begins (folio 4) with a short preface, written by Saldanha on 29 January 1906. It is then organised into fourteen chapters and an appendix, as follows: Chapter I, Dynastic changes among the Trucial chiefs; Chapter II, Payment of fines direct to the sufferers; Chapter III, Report about Arab tribes, 1854; Chapter IV, Report about Arab tribes, 1855; Chapter V, Inter-tribal wars, 1854-1873; Chapter VI, Piracies in 1854-1855; Chapter VII, Piracies and other maritime irregularities, 1859-1861; Chapter VIII, Specimens of complaints from the Arab littoral, 1866; Chapter IX, The Shihiyin tribe: operations against them: their position, 1855-1859; Chapter X, Telegraph and tribes at Mussendom [Musandam]: jurisdiction and sovereignty over the peninsula, 1864; Chapter XI, Question of jurisdiction over the coast from Dibba to Khar Kalba and the territory about Ras Mussendom; Chapter XII, Internal affairs; Chapter XIII, British relations with the Trucial chiefs, 1873-1905; Chapter XIV, Persian relations with the Arab chiefs on the Pirate Coast: distinctive Trucial flag, 1899-1905; Appendix, Genealogical tables of the Trucial chiefs.Physical description: Foliation: the sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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.
71. 'Précis of correspondence regarding the affairs of the Persian Gulf, 1801-1853'
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- Abstract: A précis of correspondence regarding the affairs of the Persian Gulf, 1801-1853 prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha and published by Government of India Central Printing Office, Calcutta in 1906.The précis is divided up into eight sections, as follows:Part I: British Envoys to Persia and from Persia, 1801-1814.Part II: British policy in regard to Maskat [Muscat] and the Maritime Arab tribes on the Persian Gulf, 1801-1815.Part III: Affairs on the Persian Coast and Islands, 1801-1820.Part IV: British Residents and Agents in the Persian Gulf and at Maskat, 1801-1813.Part V: British policy in regard to Maskat and the Maritime Arab Tribes. Vigorous measures taken for the suppression of piracies and for security of peace in the Gulf. Persian Coast and Islands Affairs, 1818-1823.Part VI: British policy in regard to Maskat and the Maritime Arab tribes, 1823-1853.Part VII: Affairs on the Persian Coast and Islands, 1823-1853.Part VIII: British Residents and Agents in the Persian Gulf and Maskat, 1823-1853.Physical description: Foliation: the sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
72. ‘File 12/11 Piracy. (1) Alleged piracy in Muscat territory of boom belonging to Ibrahim bin Juma Doi, merchant of Muharraq Bahrain (2) Jolliboat No. 1495 BN belonging to Mohamed bin Amin of Muharraq reported missing since 2 June 1935’
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- Abstract: The file comprises correspondence relating to at least two alleged or suspected cases of piracy. The first case in the file (case number 2 in the file title) comprises a letter from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Advisor to the Government of Bahrain, to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch), dated 2 June 1935, reporting the disappearance of a loaned boat, and requesting enquiries be made as to its whereabouts. Further correspondence contains the responses to enquiries made by the Political Agent to the Residency Agent at Sharjah, the Ruler of Qatar (Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī), and the Political Agents at Muscat and Kuwait, and a further letter from Belgrave to the Political Agent, dated 1 April 1936, reporting that the boat has been returned (ff 3-15).The second case in the file (case number 1 in the file title) comprises a letter from Belgrave to the Political Agent at Bahrain, dated 4 June 1935, reporting the shipwrecking of a boat belonging to a Muharraq merchant (Ibrahim Joomah Doy) at Raf-al-Jazeri, and the seizure of the vessel’s cargo by the Ruler of Maseyda [Maṣīrah] and his people. Also included are statements made by Ibrahim Joomah Doy and the boat’s nakhuda, and correspondence between Belgrave and the Political Agent clarifying where the incident took place (ff 24-36).The remainder of the correspondence in the file, dated August 1937 (ff 37-44), is incomplete, and appears relate to other incidents of alleged piracy on the Trucial Coast, including a shooting incident on a vessel at Kalba, resulting in the death of two members of crew (ff 37-38).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 45; 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 3-14 and between ff 24-44; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.