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73. Measures Relating to the Suppression of the Trade in Enslaved Persons between the Eastern Coast of Africa and Various Ports in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 84 of 1841, dated 29 October 1841. The enclosures are dated 27 September-28 October 1841.The enclosures numbered 3-6 (dated 21 June-9 October 1841) are noted as missing. According to the abstract of contents they covered the following:Suggestions (not stated in the item) made by the Resident in the Persian Gulf of certain measures for the suppression of the trade in enslaved persons carried on between the eastern coast of Africa and various ports in the Persian Gulf and the Red SeaThe response of the Secretary to the Government of India regarding those suggestionsRequests for the views of the Political Agent at Aden and the British Agent at Muscat for their views on the suggestions.The remaining enclosures comprise a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of India to the Acting Secretary, Bombay, acknowledging receipt of the latter’s correspondence with Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Agent at Muscat, regarding the trade in enslaved persons said to be carried on between Bombay [Mumbai] and Zanzibar by vessels belonging to the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat, approving of the instructions Hamerton has issued, and expressing satisfaction that the trade is minimal due to current obstacles in place, and likely to cease entirely without the need for establishing further measures of prohibition. Also included is the Government of Bombay’s notification to Hamerton of the Government of India’s views.Physical description: 1 item (7 folios)
74. Affairs in India, Persia, the Persian Gulf and Zanzibar
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- Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-54 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 30 November 1841. The enclosures are dated 6 June-29 November 1841.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in India, Persia [Iran], the Persian Gulf and Zanzibar, including:Unrest in the Persian provinces of Kerman and Yezd [Yazd]A diplomatic mission to Hyderabad by a representative of the Imaum [Imam] of MuscatThe seizure of a ship at Zanzibar suspected of being involved in the trade in enslaved personsCases of fraud and false identities in Bushire [Bushehr], Calcutta [Kolkata] and MuscatAttempts to determine the fate of the cargo of a ship that was wrecked on the island of Kishm [Qeshm] and to gain compensation for any property that may have been plunderedA proposed tour of the Gulf by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to deliver gifts to various Gulf rulers that were unable to be given at the time of his appointmentObstructions against British traders at Zanzibar, allegedly orchestrated by the American ConsulThe murder and robbery of a British subject at Mombassa [Mombasa].The primary correspondents are: the Political Resident; the Native Agent, Muscat; the Imam of Muscat; the Collector of Customs, Bombay; and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (119 folios)
75. Vol 179 1852/53 Squadron, Persian Gulf
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- Abstract: This file contains letters, both inward and outward, relating to the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf (also referred to as the Persian Gulf Squadron). Most of the correspondence is between the Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron and the Resident in the Persian Gulf. At the beginning of 1852, the Resident in the Persian Gulf was Samuel Hennell, who is the recipient of the first two letters in this file. In March 1852, Hennell was succeeded by Arnold Burrowes Kemball, who appears as both correspondent and recipient. The other officers who appear as both correspondent and recipient are John Patterson Porter, Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron, and his successor, George Robinson. In addition to the letters between the aforementioned offices there are four letters, addressed to the Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron, which were originally enclosed with other letters (not present in this file) from the Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron to the Resident in the Persian Gulf. The correspondents of these letters are: Lieutenant George William Leeds, Commander of the Honourable Company's schooner Constance; Lieutenant James Longden Stevens, Commander of the Honourable Company's sloop Clive; Lieutenant James Tronson, Commander of the Honourable Company's brigantine Tigris.Much of the correspondence in the file includes intelligence received from the Native Agent at Sharjah, Hadji Yacoob. Subjects covered include: an attack against the Banī Qitab tribe, reportedly launched by Shaikh Said bin Tahnun Al Nahayan of Abu Dhabi; reported acts of piracy off the Arabian coast; the whereabouts of the plundered cargo of the merchant ship, the Centaur; reports of slaves being imported from Zanzibar.Physical description: Pagination: There is an incomplete pagination sequence, which is written in ink, in the top right corners of the rectos and in the top left corners of the versos. The sequence runs from 16 to 187 and has many gaps.Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled 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 30. This is the sequence that has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.
76. Vol 78: Miscellaneous Letters Inward
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- Abstract: This file consists almost entirely of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The Resident at this time was David Anderson Blane. The principal correspondents are the following: Commodore William Sowden Collinson, Commander of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf; Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay; John Bax, Secretary to the Government of Bombay; Samuel Hennell, Assistant to the Resident in the Persian Gulf.Two of the letters contain enclosures. In his letter of 27 August 1832, John Bax encloses a copy of a letter from Charles Malcolm, Superintendent of the Indian Navy, to John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare, Governor and President in Council, Bombay, together with a copy of Bax's reply to Malcolm.In his letter of 3 July 1832, Samuel Hennell encloses copies of his correspondence with Shaik Rashid ben Hamed [Shaikh Rashid I bin Humaid Al Nuaimi], Chief of Eyman [Ajman], and Henry Wyndham [Windham], Commander of the Honourable Company brig of war the Tigris, respectively.Subjects covered in this file include: the state of confusion in Muscat, following the departure of the Imam [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] for Zanzibar; the imprisonment of the Imam of Muscat's son and nephew by Soud Bin Ally Bin Saif [Saud bin Ali bin Saif], Chief of Burka [Barkā’, Oman]; the effects of the outbreak of plague in Bushire; the reported seizure by Sultan bin Suggur [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī, ruler of Ra's al-Khaymah and Sharjah] of three forts on the Batinah [Al-Bāṭinah] coast belonging to the Imam of Muscat; details of Samuel Hennell's efforts to recover property reportedly plundered from some of the Imam's subjects by dependents of Rashid ben Hamed; the British Government's alliance with the Imam of Muscat; the movements and states of repair of various Indian Navy ships (including a list of ships employed by the Indian Navy).Physical description: Pagination: There is an original but incomplete pagination sequence, with gaps present in the file between folios 1 and 28. The numbers are written in ink and are located in the top outermost corners of each page.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio with content (i.e. text) and terminates at the last folio with content; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.
77. Measures for the Suppression of the Trade in Enslaved Persons
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 42 of 1856, dated 10 June 1856. The enclosures are dated 19 December 1855-7 June 1856.The enclosures chiefly comprise despatches from Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political Resident in Aden, to the Government of Bombay, and the latter’s responses, in connection with British attempts to suppress the trade in enslaved persons in the Red and Arabian seas and the Persian Gulf regions. They notably cover and include:Coghlan’s frustration over the lack of available vessels to enable him to visit independent ports on the Arabian and African coasts and Turkish [Ottoman] ports in the Red Sea, in particular Shuhr and Maculla [Ash Shihr and Mukalla] which Coghlan suggests should be monitored for boats crossing from Africa; the Government of Bombay’s resolution to press the need for naval resources upon the Secret Committee; and the Court of Directors’ recommendation that for now existing vessels at Aden and Persian Gulf stations should be usedCoghlan’s suggestion that a vessel of war be stationed at Perim Island in the Straits of Babel Mandel [Bab el Mandeb] commanding the entrance to the Red SeaThe agreement concluded by Coghlan with Sultan Manassir, the Oulaki [Sulṭān Manāṣir, al-‘Awlaqī tribe], and the latter’s complaints that his neighbours continue the trade and benefit further from his self-interdictThe issue of the need to obtain a treaty with ‘Arabian chiefs’ on the Gulf coast providing the right of British vessels to demand the liberation of enslaved persons landed ashore, and the assertion of the Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf that Zanzibar traders evade British surveillance by sailing to Oman and following land routes through Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran], and suggestion that a steam vessel be stationed at Mazeera Island [Masirah]The question of producing a ‘digest’ of all treaties existing on the subject of slavery and Coghlan’s concern that they are not enforced partly due to obscure termsAn intelligence report (supplied by a person connected with the firm of Menon Lambert and Co of Mauritius who have contracted with the British Government to carry the mails between Mauritius and Aden) describing the extent of the trade in enslaved persons carried on by Arab and Persian craft from the coast of Africa and Zanzibar to ports on the Red and Arabian seas and the Persian Gulf (ff 314-315).The principal correspondents are: Coghlan, the Government of Bombay, and the Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire.Physical description: 1 item (19 folios)
78. Reports concerning Gunboats
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- Abstract: Enclosure No. 3 to Despatch No. 14 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 March 1860. The Enclosure is dated 11 February 1860. Received 30 April 1860.The Enclosure consists of a report from the Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy, Commodore George Greville Wellesley, concerning the efficiency of gunboats that were required to be built by the Indian Navy, with particular reference to HM Gun Boat Clyde. A note on the verso of the last folio of the Enclosure states that the report gives further evidence of the superiority of a fast light steam sloop to a gunboat for service at Zanzibar.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
79. Supply of tents to Tehran, communications in India, and the trade in enslaved persons in Oman
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- Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-18 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 17 January 1852. The enclosures are dated 16 June 1851-17 January 1852.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to four separate subjects.Folios 85-97 cover a complaint from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran] that tents supplied to the British Mission at Tehran by the Government of Bombay in 1849 have proven to be of inferior quality to previous batches, and an enquiry into the tendering process and specifications of the tents.Folios 98-99 consist of an extract from a resolution by the East India Company Secret Committee relating to the establishment of steam navigation on the Indus and Punjab rivers for the purposes of communication.Folios 100-103 cover attempts to reduce the volume of communications between departments of the Government of India.Folios 104-113 cover the trade in enslaved persons within the dominions of the Imam of Muscat and Oman (including Zanzibar), and efforts against it by both the Imam and the British.The primary correspondents are: the Envoy in Tehran; the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the Secret Committee; and the British Consul, Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (33 folios)
80. Map Indicating Routes of Navigation Around the Harbour of Zanzibar and the Surrounding Islands
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- Abstract: Manuscript map used to illustrate routes of navigation around the harbour of Zanzibar [Zanzibar City] and the surrounding islands. The map indicates the coastline and coastal waters to a distance of two miles offshore, and portrays coastal and inland hydrography, vegetation, hachuring on coastal slopes, details of the fort and adjacent buildings of Zanzibar, and sandbanks, and includes topographical and navigational notes, depths by soundings, and coastal flows.The map was enclosed in HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones’s Dispatch No. 25 of 14 September 1810, which was received on 6 February 1811.Physical description: Manuscript: ink on paperDimensions: 400 x 275mm, on sheet 400 x 311mm
81. Journals kept by Lewis Pelly recording journeys and events in India and Zanzibar
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- Abstract: File containing journals kept by Lewis Pelly during his early career in India. The journals include a recollection, written in 1854, of a post monsoon journey from Kurrachee [Karachi] to Bombay in 1842; journeys taken in India in 1855 to mark his thirtieth birthday; an excursion to visit a tomb in Roree [Rohri] in 1854; a journey to visit the Sohailee [Swahili] Sultan in Zanzibar in 1862; and a general journal recounting daily events in 1854.Physical description: Foliation: The contents of the file have foliated using a pencil number enclosed in a circle located in the top right hand corner of the recto of each folio.
82. Letter and Enclosures from Commodore Sir Leopold George Heath on the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and Suggestions for its Suppression
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- Abstract: This file contains copies of a series of letters (and their various enclosures) between Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath, Commander of HMS Octaviaand the following individuals:The Secretary of the Admiralty, Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox;Britain's Agent in Zanzibar, Henry Adrian Churchill;The Secretary of the Admiralty, William Edward Baxter;The Governor of Bombay, Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald.The correspondence, that dates from October 1868 to June 1869, concerns Commodore Heath's visit to Zanzibar regarding the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa and the means he suggested in order to stop it.Physical description: Condition: the file is contained within a bound volume that contains a number of other files.Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 92, and terminates at f 97, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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 also present in parallel between ff 5-134; these numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
83. Zanzibar: Slave Trade
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- Abstract: Enclosures nos. 3-6 to dispatch no. 7 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 March 1861. The enclosures are dated August 1860 to March 1861. Received 19 April 1861.The enclosures include correspondence from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, HM Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, describing recent slave trading activity at Zanzibar, and the role played by the French Consul there.Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)
84. Zanzibar: Slave Trade
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- Abstract: Enclosures nos. 3-4 to dispatch no. 21 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 21 June 1861. The enclosures are dated April 1861. Received 15 [?] July 1861.The enclosures consist of letters from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, HM Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, concerning the involvement of 'piratical Arab tribes' in the slave trade at Zanzibar. The second letter includes translations into English of Arabic letters found on the dhows involved.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)