Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2349/123808. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Syed Soweynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Acting Governor of Muskat [Muscat]. It is the twenty-second in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:The incursions of Sheik Syf ben Humood [Sayyid Sayf bin Hamūd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] onto Syed Soweynee’s territoryThe ambitions of Sheik Sultan ben Sugger [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Sharjah and Ra’s al-Khaymah] to attack Khor Fakawn [Khawr Fakkan, also written as Khai Fakawn], Kulla [Kalba], and Shinas [also written as Shiras]The circumstances under which Muscat gained control of Khor Fakawn from Sultan ben Sugger.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 2 of No 1’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 405, and terminates at f 413 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.