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13. ‘Muscat Proceedings connected with a suspicion entertained by Lieutenant Colonel Hamerton that a traffic in slaves, is still carried on in the Dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat by British subjects and subjects of the Native Protected States in India-’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions, cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 9 June 1855. The enclosures are dated 15 February 1853-1 May 1855.The item relates to reports of 'Banians' [also rendered in text as Banyans and Banneeans] and other people from ports on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent, living in Zanzibar [also rendered in text as Zanzebar] and engaging in the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people] between the dominions of the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat and the Indian subcontinent. This is relayed to the Government of Bombay by Major Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and Company Agent in the dominions of the Imaum, between 1853 and 1855. Hamerton's correspondence includes details of how the trade is conducted and his suggestions for suppressing it. Copies of his correspondence are forwarded to Captain Raikes, Assistant Political Agent at Kutch [Kachchh], and Lieutenant-Colonel William Lang, Political Agent in Katteewar [Kathiawar, also rendered in text as Kattywar], requesting them to report on whether subjects from those places are involved in the trade. Copies are also sent to British officials throughout India and the governments of India and Madras [Chennai, also referred to as Fort St George] for information.The item also contains responses from Captain John Turnley Barr, Acting Political Agent at Katteewar, and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Willoughby Trevelyan, Acting Political Agent in Kutch. Trevelyan's letter includes copy of a translated letter from the Rao of Kutch.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '1199 [18]55', 'Collection No. 3', 'Vol: 2', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '7 of No. 52 of 1855.' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 550, and terminates at f 573, 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.
14. 'Persian Gulf; Muscat and Zanzibar'
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- Abstract: A printed memorandum, written by George Russell Clerk, member of the Council of India, London, on 17 July 1868. The document discusses the motives behind Persia's ambition for a naval presence in the Gulf, including the search for markets for opium exports. In a second section, entitled 'Muscat and Zanzibar', the author discusses the proposal that Britain pay the annual subsidy owed by Zanzibar to Muscat, how best to stem the East African slave trade, and the administration of the region.Physical description: Foliation: ff 38-41.Pagination: there is an original, printed pagination system, numbered 1-7.
15. ‘Persian Gulf – Slave Trade – Vol: 2’
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- 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/4/2280/116915. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the British Agent at Bahrain [Ḥājī Jāsim]; and Syed Soweney [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat. It is the second in a series of five items on the trade in enslaved people.The item concerns:Syed Soweney’s request for the release of five buggalows [baghlahs] captured because they were carrying enslaved peopleThe difficulty in distinguishing enslaved people being employed as sailors and enslaved people being transported on ships for saleThe growth in the trade in enslaved people on the Persian Coast, particularly at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], and possible measures to combat it.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 154/49’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 33’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 412, and terminates at f 425 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.
16. ‘Persian Gulf Slave trade Vol: 4’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2280/116915. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and the Court of Directors of the East India Company. It is the fourth in a series of five items on the trade in enslaved people.The item concerns the reaction of the Court of Directors to the seizure of eleven vessels from Muscat which were found to be engaged in the trade in enslaved people.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 154/49’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 105’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 432, and terminates at f 440 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.
17. ‘Persian Gulf – Slave Trade – A female child purchased at Mangalore and taken to Muscat.’
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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. It is the fifth in a series of seven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/1912/81793, 81794, 81795, 81796, 81798, 81799). The correspondents are: the governments of Bombay and Madras; Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Thomas W Goodwyn, Acting Joint Magistrate in charge, Malabar; and Major Bruse [Bruce] Seton, Town Major at Bombay.The item concerns a five-year-old girl who was sold at Mangalore to a man from Ras-el Khymah [Ra's al-Khaymah] who took her to Muscat. It includes arrangements for repatriating her via Bombay [Mumbai].The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Col [Collection] 12, Draft 713, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3227, [Season 18]41’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 369 and terminates at f 387, 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.
18. ‘Persian Gulf Bill for Provisions &ca for the slaves brought to Bombay from the Persian Gulf – Vol: 3’
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- 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/4/2280/116915. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Gregor Grant, Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay. It is the third in a series of five items on the trade in enslaved people.The item concerns the expenses incurred by Grant while providing for the liberated enslaved people brought to Bombay by the East India Company schooner Mahi.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 154/49’, and ‘Collection No 2 of No 33’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 426, and terminates at f 431 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. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly, f 430a.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
19. ‘Persian Gulf Copies of engagements with the maritime Chiefs in the Persian Gulf for the suppression of the slave trade furnished to the Hon’ble the Court of Directors – Vol: 5’
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- 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/4/2280/116915. The correspondent is Major Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the fifth in a series of five items on the trade in enslaved people.The item concerns the request of the Court of Directors of the East India Company that Hennell forward them copies of the treaties between the British and the shaikhs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf concerning the trade in enslaved people. Copies of the treaties in English and Arabic with the following shaikhs are included:Shaik Sultan bin Suggur Chief of Ras el Khymah and Shargah [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Shaikh of Ra’s al-Khaymah and Sharjah]Shaik Abdoollah bin Rashid Shaik of Amulgavine [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu’allā, Shaikh of Umm al-Qaywayn]Sheik Abdool Azeez ben Rashid, Chief of Ejmaun [Shaikh ‘Abd al-‘Aziz bin Rāshid al-Na‘īmī, Shaikh of Ajman]Sheik Muktoom ben Buttye, Chief of Debaye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāseh, Shaikh of Dubai]Shaik Saeed bin Tahnoon, Shaik of the Beniyas, Chief of Aboothabee [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān, Chief of the Banī Yās, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi]Sheik Mahomed bin Khuleefa Chief of Bahrein [Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, Shaikh of Bahrain].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 154/49’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 160’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 441, 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.
20. ‘Persian Gulf Relative to the want of adequate means to coerce the Amaieer Chief for piracies Committed by him-’
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- Abstract: The item contains a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 29 August 1854. Some enclosures to the Political Letter are included in the item, with further enclosures found at IOR/F/4/2586/154788-IOR/F/4/2586/154794. The item is the first in a series of nine items on events in the Persian Gulf 1853-54.The enclosures in this item consist of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions and are dated 2 September 1853-August 1854. The correspondents include: Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Rear-Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy; the Court of Directors; and the governments of Bombay and India. The contents relate to:Acts of 'piracy' committed by Humud bin Mujdell, Amaieer 'Chief' of Jumna [Ḥamad bin Majdal al-‘Umayrī, ‘Amāyir Ruler of Jana] in 1851 and 1854, as well as his involvement in the trade in enslaved peopleActions taken by the Government of Bombay and by Kemball to retrieve property stolen by Humud bin Mujdell and to locate the people sold into slaveryCommunications with the Sheik of Bahrein [Shaikh of Bahrain] to hold him partially responsible for allowing the sale of enslaved people in his territoryPossibility of the Indian Navy supplying extra vessels to bolster the Squadron in the Gulf to find and punish Humud bin MujdellCourt of Directors' criticism of the actions taken so far.Also included is copy of a statement by Alee bin Furraj [ʻAlī bin Farrāj] (folios 790-791), providing details of the attack on his ship bound from Koweit [Kuwait] to Bahrein, as well as a list of the cargo stolen and the merchants to whom the cargo belonged.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '20 1855', 'in 8 Volumes', 'Collection No. 5 of No. 58 of 1854', 'Vol: 1' and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '1' but this has been crossed out and replaced with '5'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 771, and terminates at f 798, 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.
21. ‘Persian Gulf – Slave Trade’
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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 [Mumbai]. It is the third in a series of seven items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2014/89996, 89997, 89999, 90000, 90001, and 90002). The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robertson, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:The difference between Robertson’s and the original translations of the third article of the treaty agreed in May 1839 and ratified in July 1840, about the punishment for selling Soomallees [Somalis]Robertson’s proposed procedure for dealing with ships suspected of carrying enslaved Soomallees, which was rejected by the Government of BombayThe interpretation of the treaty by Samuel Hennell, at the time Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, made in April 1838 and its bearing on the treaty of 1839.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 666, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4079, [Season 18]43’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 178, and terminates at f 214, 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.
22. ‘Persian Gulf – Slave Trade. Vol: 3’
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- 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 main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Philip LeGeyt, Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay; and the Government of India. It is the third in a series of nine items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2087/96920, IOR/F/4/2087/96921, IOR/F/4/2087/96923, IOR/F/4/2087/96924, IOR/F/4/2087/96925, IOR/F/4/2087/96926, IOR/F/4/2087/96927, and IOR/F/4/2087/96928).The item concerns four previously enslaved people who were liberated from Muscat and taken to Bombay. The case of two of them, both women who wished to return to Muscat, is discussed.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 290/45, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4760’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 864 and terminates at f 889, 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.
23. ‘Persian Gulf – Slave Trade. Vol: 9’
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- 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; Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Court of Directors of the East India Company. It is the ninth in a series of nine items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2087/96920, IOR/F/4/2087/96921, IOR/F/4/2087/96922, IOR/F/4/2087/96923, IOR/F/4/2087/96924, IOR/F/4/2087/96925, IOR/F/4/2087/96926, and IOR/F/4/2087/96927).The item concerns the exact meaning of the third article of the treaty which Hennell concluded with the chiefs of the maritime Arab tribes on 2 July 1839. Hennell justifies the words used to describe the appropriate punishment for those guilty of buying or selling Soomalees [Somalis] and that the illegality of kidnapping or stealing Soomalees is not specifically mentioned.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 290/45, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4760’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 934, and terminates at f 943, 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.
24. ‘Persian Gulf. Modes in which Slaves are stolen and carried away from Zanzibar by inhabitants of the Arabian Coast-’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 29 January 1847. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2191/107336. The item is the third in a series of five items on the ‘slave trade’ [trade in enslaved people].The item contains a report by Moullah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah], on the numerous ways in which enslaved people are seized and transported from Zanzibar and Sowahil [suwāḥil or ‘coasts’ in Arabic] by inhabitants of the Arabian Coast [of the Gulf]. The report also includes Moullah Houssein’s findings concerning enslaved Soomalees [Somali people] and Abyssinians.The report is addressed to Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, who forwards it on to the Government of Bombay. It is then forwarded on to, amongst others, Captain Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and Company’s Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, with instructions to bring the Imam’s attention to this subject.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5698, Draft 542/47, Vol: 3’, ‘Collection No. 1 of No. 7’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 89, and terminates at f 95, 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.