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13. 'Basiduh and its Approaches'
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- Abstract: Chart 35.Hydrographic chart covering the port of Basiduh [Basaidu] on Qeshm Island, Persia [Iran]. Also depicts the western part of Clarence [Khuran] Strait, the Persian Gulf and a fifty-mile length of the Persian mainland coast. Portrays hydrology, including depths by soundings and contours, sands, mud, rocks and anchorages, relief by spot heights, hachures and rock drawings, vegetation, cultivation, settlements, public buildings and place names, and includes topographical notes and navigational aids, including beacons and prominent buildings. The sheet also includes an inset of Basiduh Anchorage at scale 1:60,500 and an annotated sketch view, at an unspecified scale, of the approach to Basiduh from the south-east.The margins have been trimmed, with some information lost.Chart surveyed by Commander Charles Golding. Constable, Indian Navy, and assisted by Lieutenant Arthur William Stiffe, Indian Navy, 1858-60. Soundings in 'hair line' from a survey by Commander George Barnes Brucks and Lieutenant Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Indian Navy, 1828. Engraved by Edward Stanford. Published at the Admiralty 1867, with corrections 1868 and 1869.Physical description: Materials: Printed on paperDimensions: 457 x 625mm, on sheet 484 x 643mm
14. ‘Relative to the Occupation of the Island of Kishm vol 1’
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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. It is the first in a series of two items about the island of Kishm [Qeshm] (the other is IOR/F/4/762/20694). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Henry Willock, HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia.The item discusses:The occupation of the island of Kishm by British troops, with a list of the troops present on the island (f 74)The claims of Persia and Muscat to sovereignty over the islandThe fears of Persia over the occupation of Kishm and Andrew Jukes’s mission to Governor of Fars [Prince-Governor of Fārs, Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mirzā Farmānfarmā]A proposed expedition against the Joasmees [al-Qawāsim]The conduct of William Bruce, Resident at Bushire [Būshehr]Relations between Persia and Bahrein [Bahrain], and between Muscat and Bahrein.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No. 855, Draft 106, P.C. 200, [Season] 24/5’ and ‘Examiner’s Office 1823’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 5, and terminates at 97, 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.
15. ‘Relative to the Occupation of the Island of Kishm vol 2’
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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. It is the second in a series of two items about the island of Kishm [Qeshm] (the other is IOR/F/4/762/20693). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay; James Baillie Fraser, artist and writer; and Henry Willock, HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia.The item concerns:The death of Andrew Jukes, Political Agent at Kishm and Envoy to the Court of Tehran on 10 November 1821James Baillie Fraser’s assumption of Jukes’ role in negotiations with the Government of PersiaThe rival claims to Kishm by Muscat and PersiaPersia’s wish to dismiss William Bruce as the Resident at Bushire [Būshehr]Persia’s objections to the stationing of British troops on KishmThe decision to withdraw from Kishm and a discussion of timings of the withdrawalThe plan to reinforce Kishm because of the concentration of Persian troops on the coastWillock’s difficulties at Tehran due to Persian demands for moneyThe decision to bring forward the evacuation of Kishm, and countermand the reinforcements as a result of Bruce’s unauthorised negotiations with Persia (see also IOR/F/4/894/23288 and 23289).The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No. 85[5], Draft 106, P.C. 200, [Season] 24/5’ and ‘Examiner’s Office 1823’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 98, and terminates at f 218, 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.
16. 'Persia: Railway Construction; Negotiations between the Persian Govt. and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co; Acquisition of Gulf Islands'
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- Abstract: This volume is about the construction of railways in Persia [Iran] and negotiations between the Persian Government and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) over the acquisition of islands in the Persian Gulf. It contains material relating to:The Persian Government’s interest in attracting American capital for the construction of railways in PersiaThe amount due from the Persian Government to the Persian Railways Syndicate LimitedA proposal from the Persian Railways Syndicate to connect the Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Isfahan-Tehran railway linesThe proposed re-alignment of the railway from Bagdad [Baghdad] to the Persian FrontierThe advantages, from a British perspective, of a railway line from Qaraitu [Quraitu] to TehranA proposal by the Persian Railways Syndicate to survey the route between Hamadan or Kermanshah and DizfulA proposal by the Persian Railways Syndicate to survey the Bagdad-Khanikin [Khanaqin] line with a re-alignmentA proposal by the Persian Railways Syndicate to survey a section of the existing line between Bagdad and QuraituA proposed re-alignment of the Mesopotamian [Iraqi] section of the Bagdad-Tehran RailwayThe assistance from British military authorities in Mesopotamia to surveyors of the Persian Railways SyndicateThe arrival of two Belgian engineers, de Kock and de Ronck, in Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to PersiaThe construction, by the Persian Railways Syndicate, of a railway between Hamadan and TehranThe approval of the agreement between the Persian Railways Syndicate and the Persian GovernmentThe views of Major-General Percy Zachariah Cox on the construction of railways in PersiaThe negotiations between Sir Ernest William Moir (of Pearson and Son and the Persian Railways Syndicate) and the Persian Minister of Foreign Affairs [Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawlah] on railway construction in PersiaThe application of Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited for a railway concession in PersiaThe negotiations of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company with the Persian Government toward a railway concessionThe position of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company on the acquisition of Abadan and Kishm [Qeshm].Physical description: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 313; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
17. ‘Slave Trade in the Red Sea & Persian Gulf. Vol: 2’
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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 main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Government of India. It is the second in a series of nine items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2087/96920, IOR/F/4/2087/96922, IOR/F/4/2087/96923, IOR/F/4/2087/96924, IOR/F/4/2087/96925, IOR/F/4/2087/96926, IOR/F/4/2087/96927, and IOR/F/4/2087/96928).The item concerns:The acquittal of Ali bin Abdulla [‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh], the supercargo of the Aden Merchanton a charge of trading enslaved peopleAn investigation into whether three Indian women were being kept against their will at Kishm [Qeshm]The arrival at Bombay of four previously enslaved children from Muscat, and their accounts of their livesA proclamation made at Muscat prohibiting the buying or selling of enslaved people from India, and the disappointment of the British that this proclamation was not as wide-ranging as they believed the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] had intended.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 290/45, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4760’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 810 and terminates at f 863, 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.
18. ‘Cession by the King of Persia to the French of the Port of Gombroon.’
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- Abstract: The 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. It concerns news of French activities in Persia and the Gulf, and the measures to be taken to protect British interests.In particular, the item addresses reports of a French mission to Persia, of an agreement made between Persia and France, and concerns about the threat this might pose to British interests in the Gulf. It is alleged that Persia has agreed to cede the port of Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and the islands of Ormus [Jazīreh-ye Hormoz], Kishm [Qeshm], and Kharick [Kharg] to France, and that a French fleet is heading to the Gulf to take possession of these territories. As a result, plans are made for the formation of a naval force to intercept the French fleet.The primary correspondents are: Owaness Paitkym [Hovhannes Paitkhim]; Moohummud Hossein Khan [Mirzā Muḥammad Ḥusayn Khān Bahādur Jang, also referred to as Mirzer Moohummaud Hooseyn Khan]; Jafer Ali Khan [Ja’far ‘Ali Khan], Native Agent, Shiraz; Nicholas Hankey Smith, Resident at Bushire [Bushehr]; Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay; Rear Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, Commander in Chief, East Indies; Captain John Ferrier; Nusuroola Khan [Naṣr Allāḥ Khān Qarāguzlū, also referred to as Nusur Oolla Khan and Nassuralla Khan], Vazir of Fars [incorrectly identified as Beglerbeg of Fars in the item]; and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent at Sheraze [Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mirzā Farmānfarmā, Prince-Governor of Fārs].The title page (f 264) of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 14, Season 1808/09, Draft 178, Para. 61’; and ‘Examiner’s Office, July 1808 and September and December’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 315, and terminates at 407, 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.
19. Jonasand Lion: Journal on Jonasand Lion, Richard Swanley
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- Abstract: This volume consists of a journal kept by Richard Swanley of journeys on board the East India Company ships the Jonasand the Lyon[ Lion].The journal contains the following:Daily entries (although there are not entries for every day) mainly recording winds and the weather, and the course and progress of the shipMonthly tables recording the following: day of the month, course, leagues, winds, latitude, longitude, East or West, variation, and Easterly or Westerly (although again there are not entries for every day of the month, and there are not entries for every month).The volume includes Swanley’s journal for a journey from Tilbury to Surratt [Surat] (folios 6 to 24), with Swanley initially serving as Master’s Mate in the Jonas, commanded by Captain John Weddell. The Jonasset sail from Tilbury on 17 March 1620 [New Style date 1621], with the Whaleand the Dolphin, and was later joined by the Lyon[ Lion]. Swanley records events including the ship anchoring at St Augustine’s Bay on 23 July 1621, and Swally [Suvali, near the city of Surat] on 26 September 1621, after which the ship anchored at Jasquis [Jask] on 14 November 1621, and Kishme [Qishm] on 23 January 1621 [1622]. The entries in this part of the journal are dated 19 March 1620 [1621] to 27 December 1622.This is followed by Swanley recording that they set sail from Qishm on 4 February 1621 [1622], and that on 7 February 1621 [1622], Swanley joined the Lionat Combrom [Bandar Abbas, also spelled Combroom in this volume], bound for Surat, with the Roseand the Richard, anchoring near the Bar of Surat on 27 February 1621 [1622] (folios 25 to 26). The entries in this part of the journal are dated 4 February 1621 [1622] to 27 February 1621 [1622].Following this, Swanley records the journey from the Port of Swaley [Suvali, near Surat city, also spelled Swalley in this volume] to the Red Sea in the Lion, accompanied by the Roseand the Richard, with five merchants, and back again to Suvali (folios 27 to 36). Swanley records events including leaving the Port of Suvali on 24 March 1621 [1622], Socratore [Socotra] being seen on 2 May 1622, land on the Coast of Arabia being seen on 22 May 1622, and the ship anchoring at Mocha on 9 June 1622. The entries in this part of the journal are dated 14 March 1621 [1622] to 27 December 1622.Swanley then records his journey from Surat to England in the Jonas, with the Londonand Lion(folios 38 to 53). He records setting sail from the Port of Suvali on 18 December 1622, and other events such as the Comoro Islands being seen on 31 January 1622 [1623], and the ship anchoring at St Helena on 8 April 1623. The entries in this part of the journal are dated 18 December 1622 to 22 July 1623.The volume includes some annotations in pencil from a later date.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 56; 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 4-53; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.
20. ‘TRACING SHOWING THE ROUTE AND COAST LINE FROM MOGOO BAY TO THE TOWN OF BUNDER ABBAS’
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- Abstract: Issued with a Report No. 6 of 1864.Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures. Depth shown by soundings.Map of the area west of Bunder Abbas showing ship’s route with anchorage marked and coordinates reported.Another copy of the map can be found at Mss Eur F126/37, f 23.Physical description: Dimensions:303 x 643 mm, on sheet 374 x 710 mm
21. ‘TRACING SHOWING THE ROUTE AND COAST LINE FROM MOGOO BAY TO THE TOWN OF BUNDER ABBAS’
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- Abstract: Issued with a Report No. 6 of 1864.Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures. Depth shown by soundings.Map of the area west of Bunder Abbas showing ship’s route with anchorage marked and coordinates reported.Another copy of the map can be found at Mss Eur F126/37, f 13.Physical description: Dimensions:303 x 643 mm, on sheet 377 x 707 mm
22. ‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’, Pt 1
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- Abstract: This item contains the East India Company’s early correspondence about Persia [Iran] from 19 March 1621 to 25 November 1625. The correspondence contained in the item includes material relating to:The request from King James I of England to the Shah of Persia [‘Abbās I] to permit English merchants to procure silks in a ‘more convenient’ town closer to the port of Jasques [Jask]The war between the amirs of Trypoly and Sydon [Amīr Yūsuf bin Sayfā, Pāsha of Tripoli, and Amīr Fakhr al-Dīn II, born Qurqmāz al-Ma’nī of Sidon]The crossing of the River Danubius [Danube] and invasion of Poland [Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth] by the Ottoman Imperial ArmyThe establishment of a Dutch East India Company factory [trading post] at AgraThe death of the ‘Roman Gentleman his wyfe’ [Maʿanī al-Juwayrī, wife of Pietro della Valle]The campaign of the ‘Chaune of Xiraz’ [Khān of Shiraz, meaning the Governor-General of Fars, Imām Qulī Khān Ūndīlādze] against the Portuguese in Keshm [Qeshm] and Ormuz [Hormuz, also written here as Ormus], request for naval assistance from the English East India Company, and the Articles of Agreement between the Khan and the CompanyThe arrest and execution of a number of associates of the ‘Carmelite College’ in Spahan [Isfahan] for attempting to warn the Portuguese of the impending campaign against OrmuzThe capture of the fort of Keshm, death of Captain William Baffin, and transportation of the Portuguese to the Coast of ArabiaThe departure of the King of Persia from Spahan for Candahore [Kandahar]The exemption of English merchants from ‘Rhadarage’ [rāhdārī, i.e. road tolls] in PersiaThe negotiations of the commanders of the English fleet, John Weddell, Richard Blythe, Nicholas Woodcock and Francis Pinder, with the Chaun and his Chief Steward, Pollard Begge [Pulād Beg]The Anglo-Persian force’s capture of the Portuguese fortress at Ormuz on 22 April 1622, and the damages caused to the fleet of Royfreerars [Captain Rui Freire de Andrade, also written here as Royfrere]The negotiations between the Portuguese and the Persians over the terms of surrender and future of Ormuz, without the presence or participation of the English East India CompanyThe justification of the English fleet’s participation in the campaign on account of the threats posed by the PortugueseThe poor behaviour of the English sailors as the cause for the unjust division of spoils at OrmuzThe procurement of a firman [farmān] for English deserters to be returned from the Persian ArmyThe transportation of the Portuguese prisoners from Ormuz to Muscatt [Muscat] or Indya [India]The proposals of Edward Monox [Monnox] for the establishment of factories at Sinde [Sindh], Dabull [Dabhol], and Balsora [Basra], and a single additional factory at Ormuz in PersiaThe arrival of a fleet under the Earl of Oxford [Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford] in the Downes [Downs]The failure of the Siege of Montaban [Montauban], death of Monsieur De Luynes [Charles d’Albert, Duc de Luynes and Constable of France] and the blockade of Rochell [La Rochelle]The defence of the Palatinate by the English volunteers of Sir Oratio Vere [Horace Vere], and Count Monsfeld [Ernst von Mansfeld’s] plan to drive out the forces of Count [Ambrogio] SpinolaThe stalemate between the [Holy Roman] Emperor [Ferdinand II von Habsburg] and Betlem Gabor, Prince of Transilvaniya [Bethlen Gábor, Prince of Transylvania]The replacement of Libby Chapman with Edward Kirkham as Consul at AleppoA sea fight between an English fleet and that of the Vizeere [Vizier] of Goa off Moosombeaque [Mozambique], and Royfreerars’s intention to escort the Vizeere to GoaThe transmission of a letter from the King of Persia to the King of England by the English East India Company, together with a request for examples of English muskets and bulletsThe dismissal of Mr Strachaun [George Strachan] from the CompanyThe reception of the ambassadors of the Emperor of Moscovia [Russia] at the Persian Court, on a mission to obtain the Shah’s permission for the export of silk across the Caspian SeaThe capture of the port of Dabull by Millick Amber [Malik ʻAnbar, Regent of the Sultanate of Ahmednagar], and subsequent detention of his merchandise and commercial agents in PersiaThe need for an official mission from England to formalise trade with PersiaThe lack of security caused by the Porgutall [Portuguese] raids on Persian territoriesThe marriage of King Charles [Charles I of England] to the sister of the French King [Princess Henriette Marie de Bourbon, sister of King Louis XIII of France]The Spanish General, Count Spenolo [Spinola’s] capture of Breda in the Low CountriesThe death of Graue Morris [Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange] and the succession of his brother Henry [Frederick Henry] in the NetherlandsThe death of the Earl of Oxford and many other Englishmen in Dutch serviceThe Duke of Savoy [Carlo Emanuele I] and his French allies’ campaign against Gennoua [Genoa]The Pope [Urban VIII Barberini’s] claim to the Country [Kingdom] of NaplesThe ‘great multitudes’ of Cossacks raiding the Ottoman Empire across the Black SeaThe knighting of Morris Abbott, Governor of the East India Company, by King Charles.Physical description: 1 item (124 folios)
23. ‘Trigonometrical Survey of Clarence’s Strait, Gulf of Persia. By Commr. G.B. Brucks and Lieutt. S.B. Haines. H.C. Marine 1828. Engraved by R. Bateman. Sheet 1st’
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- Abstract: Imprint:Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the East India Company.Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures. Depth shown by soundings.Nautical chart of the Clarence Strait in the Persian Gulf compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers between 1820 and 1829. Depicts the coastline of the mainland and the northern shores of the Island Kishm [Qishm] with the location of ‘Inderabia Fort’, a mosque and a house marked.Continuation of the map entitled ‘Sheet 2’ is held at IOR/X/3630/28/2.Physical description: Dimensions:497 x 902 mm, on sheet 679 x 1025 mm
24. 'Trigonometrical Survey of Clarence's Strait, Gulf of Persia. Sheet 1st.'
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- Abstract: Covers a thirty-five-mile length of the central portion of Clarence's Strait [Toreh-ye Khuran and Toreh-ye Khvoran] and the adjacent coastlines of southern Persia [Iran] and Kishm Island [Qeshm Island, Iran], together with a hinterland of approximately half a mile. Portrays hydrology, including depths by soundings, sands and rocks, relief by hachures, vegetation, settlements and place names, and includes topographical and hydrographic notes.Surveyed by Commander George Barnes Brucks and Lieutenant Stafford Bettesworth Haines, 1828. Engraved by Richard Bateman. Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the Honourable East India Company.An accompanying sheet (Sheet 2nd) is filed at IOR/X/3630/28/2.Physical description: Materials: Printed on paperDimensions: 496 x 898mm, on sheet 610 x 1020mm