‘Persian Gulf Affairs Vol: 51’

Title:

‘Persian Gulf Affairs Vol: 51’

Date:

1848/1848

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/4/2302/118727. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Commander John Croft Hawkins, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; and Commander Thomas Grere Carless. It is the fifty-first in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item primarily consists of Hawkins’s report of his tour of the Persian [Iranian] coast of the Gulf to remind the shaikhs on that coast of the recent treaty with the Persian Government abolishing the trade in enslaved people, including visits to:Congoon [Bandar-e Kangan]Assoloo [Bandar-e Asaluyeh]Cheroo [Bandar-e Chiru’iyeh]Charrack [Bandar-e Charak]Mogoo [Moghuyeh]Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]Bassadore [Basaʻidu]Shargah [Sharjah]Muscat.His report also mentions:An advance of 200 rupees to a son of the King of Johanna [Anjouan] to enable him to reach Ceylon [Sri Lanka]A shipment of Assyrian marbles to Bombay [Mumbai]Disputes between the shaikhs of Charrack and MogooA dispute over a battila claimed by the people of Nabend [Damagheh-ye Nay Band]A description of the capture of Brymee [Al Buraymi] by Sheik Saeed bin Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān of Abu Dhabi] and Syed Saif ben Hamood [Sayyid Sayf bin Hamūd Āl Bū Sa‘īd of Suhar], and the reaction of Shaik Sooltan ben Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah] and Sheik Muctoom [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah of Dubai]His investigation into complaints by Bahman bin Sudda [Bāman bin Sādh bin Amardās] against Khojah Hiskael [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], British Agent at Muscat.The item also includes a report from Carless including another description of the capture of Brymee and a description of the people who moved from Bahrein [Bahrain] to Kenn [Kish Island].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 725, and terminates at f 749, 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:

Tours
Bilateral relations
Naval affairs

Geographic region:

Brymee
Persian Gulf

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100098764779.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098764779.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2302/118777
IOR/F/4/2302/118777

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