Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, memoranda, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Captain Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the ninth in a series of ten items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/1767/72461, IOR/F/4/1767/72462, IOR/F/4/1767/72463, IOR/F/4/1767/72464, IOR/F/4/1767/72465, IOR/F/4/1767/72466, IOR/F/4/1767/72467, IOR/F/4/72468, and IOR/F/4/1767/72470).The item concerns the flight of Sheik Nasir of Bushire [Shaikh Nasir Al Mazkur II, Shaikh of Bushehr] to the island of Karrack [Khark/Kharg] with his two uncles, anticipating arrest by an emissary of the Prince of Shiraz, Mirza Abbas, who subsequently assumed control of the town.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 550, 1839, P.C. [Previous Communication] 2491’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 859 and terminates at f 863, as it was originally 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.