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1. ‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the Register of Arabian and Persian Vessels visiting the Port of Kurrachee.’
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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. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2550/149197. It is the ninth in a series of sixteen items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Sind [Sindh]; John MacLeod, Deputy Collector of Customs, Kurrachee [Karachi]; and Richard Spooner, Acting Collector of Customs, Bombay [Mumbai].The item concerns a report of vessels arriving in Kurrachee from Arabian and Persian ports without the required documentation. This leads to a wider discussion about the existing regulations for ‘native vessels’ trading between the Persian Gulf and the western coast of British India, and the need to better enforce these. Reference is made to Article V of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf of 1820, and to a notification published by the Government of Bombay on 2 January 1835, both of which are reproduced on f 553.Apart from the two reproductions mentioned above, the material in this file is dated 1852-1853.The item contains a table of contents (f 550), and the title page (f 549) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 84 of 1853. Vol. 9’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘7’ but this has been crossed out and replaced with ‘10’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 549 and terminates at f 556, 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.
2. 'Vol 196: 1854/55 Commerce'
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- Abstract: A collection of letters, which with the exception of one from L Darling to Her British Majesty's Consul at Bushire, are all from, or to, Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The first is a covering letter for a package of samples of piece goods sent by Kemball to Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Scinde [Sindh], Kurrachee [Karachi]. This is followed by a collection of correspondence between Kemball and Shariarjee Rustomjee, Bombay, on the subject of Shariarjee Rustomjee’s proposed sale of goods at Bushire and his engagement of an agent for this purpose. In response to his concerns that his goods should be taxed as British property and secured from unlawful encroachment, Kemball advises Shariarjee Rustomjee to appoint a British subject rather than the native agent proposed. One letter is from L Darling in London seeking to obtain commercial information regarding the market of Bushire. Kemball’s letter in reply includes a copy of a letter from Messrs I A Malcolm and Co., an American firm established in Bushire, providing the requested information. There is a letter from Kemball to Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Bagdad [Baghdad], on the subject of the establishment of a standing committee at Kurrachee for the direct sale of horses from the Persian Gulf. This letter includes copies of several others all relating to this same subject. The final two letters are letters of introduction, written by Kemball to Henry Bartle Edward Frere, recommending two horse traders bringing horses to Kurrachee for sale.Physical description: Pagination: Pagination is written in ink, in the top right corners of the rectos and in the top left corners of the versos.Foliation: Foliation is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. This sequence begins on the fourth folio after the front cover, on number 2, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 25. This is the sequence used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.
3. ‘Relating to the Slave Trade Vol: 2’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Board of Control of the East India Company; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Ali bin Nasir, an envoy from the Imam of Muscat; Sayyid Sa‘id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id, the Imam of Muscat. It is the second in a series of two items on the trade in enslaved people (the other is IOR/F/4/1990/88112).The item contains the correspondence between the Earl of Aberdeen and Ali bin Nasir during the latter’s embassy to London on behalf of the Imam of Muscat.The item concerns:The limits on the trade in enslaved people which the British Government wished the Imam of Muscat to impose in his territoriesComplaints from the British that the Imam had not fulfilled his treaty obligationsComplaints from the Imam that the British had not fulfilled their treaty obligations.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 227, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3822A, [Season 18]43’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 252 and terminates at f 276, 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.
4. ‘Mekran coast - Kurrachee to Guadur with Lieut. Ross route from Guadur to Kurrachee’
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- Abstract: Distinctive Features:Unsigned and undated.Produced about 1864 when the telegraph line opened.Relief shown by hachures.Shows telegraph stations in Kurarachee (Karachi), Sonmeauce (Sonmani), Ormarali (Ormara), Pusinee (Pasni) and Guadur (Gwadar). Major Goldsmid’s route and Lieuth. E.C. Ross’ route indicated by dotted and pecked lines.Inscriptions:Annotations in pencil across printed area with place names added.Physical description: Dimensions:332 x 500 mm, on sheet 351 x 521 mm
5. ‘Vol 184 1853/54 Commerce; Accounts and General’
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence and other papers related to a number of different subjects. The principal correspondents are Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Topics covered by the file include:Import duties payable by British subjects on merchandise imported into Persia;General trade in Persia;The British annexation of Pegu [Bagu, Myanmar];The illegal opium trade from the Persian and the Arabians coast into Sind;The introduction of trading registers for Arab and Persian vessels at Karāchi.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence is written in pencil, in the top-right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 43. Foliation errors: ff 11A-B.Pagination: There is a pagination sequence, which is written in ink, in the top-right corners of the rectos and the top-left corners of the versos. It runs from 2 to 247 with several gaps in the sequence.
6. 'Marine Minutes – Light Ships &c 1864 to 1866 Vol 1'
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- Abstract: The Minutes of the Council of India on miscellaneous marine matters. Correspondence discusses the following topics:Cost of maintenance of light vessel at Little Basses Rocks and light dues collectedStern wheel steamersSubscription to funds of the Strangers' Home for AsiaticsStores and fittings for troop shipsMeteorological measurements submitted from BombayDirections for approaching Kurrachee [Karachi] HarbourMedical comforts for troopshipsErection of lighthouses in the Red Sea.The volume includes a map (folio 84) of the Indian Ocean and a Chart of the Red Sea (folio 335). Also included is the Annual Report (1860) of the Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders (ff 137-150) and a booklet entitled 'Why Not Render the Red and Indian Sea as Secure for Passengers, Mails etc as the Seas of Great Britain' by Henry Gribble, Commander, HCS.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 395; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Several additional pagination and foliation sequences are present intermittently throughout the volume.
7. Vol 215: Persia and Persian Coast; Miscellaneous
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- Abstract: This volume consists mostly of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, and the Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Writing on behalf of the Residency are Commander (James) Felix Jones, Acting Resident (and later in the volume, Resident) in the Persian Gulf, and Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf. At this time the Secretary to the Government of Bombay was Henry Lacon Anderson.The volume is divided into two sections. The first section (ff 1A-65) concerns Persia and the Persian coast. Several of Anderson's letters contain copies of received correspondence, including a letter (ff 3-7) from George Frederick Edmonstone, Secretary to the Government of India, as well as extracts of letters from the East India Company's Court of Directors. In addition, there is a copy of a petition (ff 41-44) addressed by Cornwallis Hewett, Resident at Kurrachee [Karāchi], to Lord Elphinstone, Governor and President in Council at Bombay, in which Hewett complains that he has sustained losses as a result of the Governor of Bushire detaining a number of his horses. This petition is followed by copies of letters between the Residency and Hewett (and Hewett's agent), which date from September 1855 to May 1856.Some of the letters from the Residency to Bombay include translated extracts of correspondence with native agents and local rulers, including the Agent at Shiraz and His Royal Highness the Prince of Shiraz.Other subjects covered in this section include Britain's commercial treaty with Persia (1847) and its implications for granting passports to Indian-born and Persian-born subjects, and the onset of the Anglo-Persian War.The second section (ff 66-93) has been labelled as miscellaneous correspondence. One letter from Jones to Anderson (ff 67-75) contains translated extracts of correspondence both with native agents and with a number of local rulers, including: Zayid ben Khuleefah [Shaikh Zayed bin Khalīfah Al Nahyan], Chief of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]; Sheikh Abdul Rahman ben Suggur, Governor of Kishm [Qeshm]; Sheikh Ali ben Khuleefa [Shaikh Ali bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain]; and Ameer Fyzal [Faisal bin Turki bin ‘Abdullāh Al Sa‘ūd], the Wahabee Ameer [Wahhābī Emir]. These enclosures relate to the Crimean War: each extract expresses the respective ruler's pleasure at having learned of the fall of Sebastopol [Sevastopol].This section also includes a letter (ff 76-84) from Jones to Anderson on the subject of the Residency's finances, in which Jones encloses lists of the allowances for the various positions attached to the Residency on 1 May 1827, 1 May 1832, 1 October 1835 and 1 July 1856 respectively.In another letter to Anderson (ff 85-88), Jones includes copies of correspondence, dating from 1844, between Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, and the Secretary to the Government of India, on the subject of replacing Indian sepoys with horsemen for the purpose of collecting and carrying dispatches.Physical description: Pagination: An original pagination sequence is present between folio 2 and folio 93; these numbers are written in ink and can be found in the top left corners of the versos and in the top right corners of the rectos.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the title page and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. It should be noted that the following anomalies occur in this sequence: folio 1 is followed by folio 1A; folio 71 is followed by folio 71A; folio 79 is followed by folio 79A; folio 80 is followed by folio 80A; folio 81 is followed by folio 81A.
8. Steam Navigation to Internal and External Communications of India, Volume 8
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- Abstract: Papers and correspondence relating to the journals and diaries of explorations in the area of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding waters in the context of improving navigation and communications between England and India.A list of contents is given on folio 10:'Captain Mark Wood's Narrative of his Overland journey, 1779-1780' (ff 12-55)'Mr R. Scott's Letter on the Passage over the Isthmus of Suez, and project of a new route to India, 1780' (ff 56-84)'Mr D. Talamas: correspondence relative to compensation for carrying overland Dispatches, 1783' (ff 85-94)'Lieut S. Hunter's Narrative of his Overland Journey with Dispatches, and documents connected with his expences, 1792' (ff 95-111)'Correspondence between the Court and Indian Governments on Deficiency of Intelligence, 1785 to 1803' (ff 112-129)'Fragment of a Narrative on an Overland journey to India' (ff 130-138)'Captain J. Wainwright Remarks on the navigation of the Persian Gulph, 1809-1810' (ff 139-166)'Captn Sadler's Diary of his Mysion to Arabia, 1819-20' (ff 167-339)'Captn Bedford's Journals of the Survey of the Burrampooter River, 1824-1825' (ff 340-423)'Lieutenant Wellsted's Memoir regarding the Red Sea and Steam Navigation between Europe and India, 1832' (ff 424-539)'Lieut. Wybards's Journal of an Excursion into Arabia' (ff 540-565)'Memoir on the Arab Tribes on the Banks of the Euphrates and Tigris' (ff 566-584).The volume also includes a sketch map (folio 585v): 'A Map of the Oases of El Hasa'.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 599; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, present between ff 4-95, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.Pagination: The file also contains an original printed pagination sequence which runs in parallel between ff 14-586 and additional intermittent pagination sequences which are written in pencil, but are not circled.The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 587-598, which have not been digitised.
9. Supplying the Bombay Division of the Army of the Indus During the British-led Invasion of Afghanistan
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- Abstract: Copies of correspondence and other papers, chiefly comprising communications between Henry Pottinger, Resident in Sinde [Sindh, also spelled Scinde in this volume], and the Government of India, Bombay [Mumbai], regarding his arrangements for obtaining and transporting stores and supplies for the Bombay division of the Army of the Indus advancing from Kurrachee [Karachi] under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane.The papers notably cover:Obtaining boats, camels, horses and bullocksLogistics of moving stores down the line by land and river towards Bukker [Bukkur]Reports on the route from Kurrachee to Tatta [Thatta], by Lieutenant Buckle, Indian Navy, and Lieutenant Macleod, Bombay Engineers, and use of the Garrah [Gharo] Creek near the port of Kurrachee, including compass sketches of the route to the Creek (catalogued as sub-items IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 632 and 633)Payment of the Jam of Garrah for British use of the Garrah CreekCost estimate for repairing the Manora Fort [also spelled Munnara, Munara, and Moonarat in this volume] for damage sustained during the bombardment by HMS Wellesley, including drawing of fort (catalogued as sub-item IOR/L/PS/5/375, f 599)An account of a potential route from Sonmeanee [Somiani, also spelled Someena and Somanee in this volume] in Beloochistan [Balochistan] via Kelat [Kalat] to the city of Candahar [Kandahar] as described by a horse merchant of Affghanistan [Afghanistan] to Captain W C Harris, Field Engineer with the Sinde Reserve Force, 5 April 1839 (ff 601-613), including a list of places en route and remarks on each oneRates and payment of allowances for members of the Poona [Pune] Auxiliary Horse sent and attached to the Resident in Sinde to escort suppliesUrgent request by Captain William Joseph Eastwick, Officiating Political Agent, Upper Sinde, for the assignment of two assistants by the Bombay GovernmentIntelligence, with orders, replies and observations, from Lahore, Peshawur [Peshawar], Cabool [Kabul], Shikarpore [Shikarpur], the Army of the Indus, Nipal [Nepal], Ava, and general intelligence (ff 625-631).The principal correspondents are: Pottinger; and John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay.Physical description: The papers are not in chronological order.