‘Persian Gulf. Regarding the liberation of the two Joasmee boats with their Cargoes – Vol: 5’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Regarding the liberation of the two Joasmee boats with their Cargoes – Vol: 5’
- Date:
- 1850/1850
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2376/126162. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Commodore John Porter, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf. It is the fifth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns Porter’s report of his cruise around the Persian Gulf, including relations between the shaikhs of Debaye [Dubai], Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and Bhrymee [Al Buraymi], and the future intentions of Fisal bin Turky [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd]. The item also mentions an enslaved man who ran away from an Aboothabee boat, and two Joasmee [al-Qawāsim] boats which were forced by bad weather to put in at Khor Fakaun [Khawr Fakkan] and subsequently detained there by forces belonging to the Imam of Muscat.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ection] No 5’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 65, and terminates at f 69 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
Foreign relations
Seizure of vessels and cargoes - Geographic region:
- Khor Fakaun
Trucial Coast - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108384588.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108384588.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2376/126166
IOR/F/4/2376/126166