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1. ‘Persian Gulf. Further proceedings relative to the plunder of two boats by the Chief of Junna in September 1851.’
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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 to the East India Company Court of Directors. The political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2550/149197. It is the second in a series of sixteen items on the Persian Gulf. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], British Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain].The item concerns the alleged plunder of two boats by Hummud bin Mujuddil [Ḥamad bin Majdal al-‘Umayrī. Multiple spellings for this name are present in the item] of Junnah [Jana], also referred to as ‘the Amaieer [‘Amāyir] Chief’. The attack took place in September 1851, but the Court of Directors have requested that further investigation be made, and in particular that the fates of the people taken captive are ascertained, and redress made. The item includes a statement of sale produced by Hajee Jassem with details of the sales of the prisoners captured by Hummud bin Mujuddil, as well as a letter from Kemball to Sheikh Mahomed ben Khuleefa, Chief of Bahrein [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain].The item contains a table of contents (f 443), and the title page (f 442) contains the following references: Draft N[umber] 358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 84 of 1853. Vol. 2’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 442 and terminates at f 457, 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. ‘Persian Gulf. Payment by the Amaeer chief of the value of the property plundered by him from a Kharrack boat in March last.’
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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/4/2174/105546. It is the fifth in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns the visit of Sheikh Humud bin Mujdel [Shaikh Ḥamad bin Majdal, also referred to in the item as Humud bin Mujjadul], Chief of Amaeer [al-‘Amāyir] tribe to the Residency in order to redeem a bugla [buggalow] previously given up as a pledge for the payment of compensation for an attack carried out by him on a ship from Karrack [Jazireh-ye Khark]. Shaik Humud also provides details of several claims of his own, and his perspective on an altercation with Jassim bin Soleyman [Jāsim bin Sulaymān] of Koweit [Kuwait].The item contains a table of contents (f 313), and the title page (f 312) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507, Coll. 7, Vol. 5’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 4 of No. 20’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 312 and terminates at f 318, 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.