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The record is made up of 3 folios. It was created in 7 Jul 1855. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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The letter and its enclosure relate to the incident in 1854 of the shipwreck and plunder by the Beni Boo Ali [Banī Bū ‘Alī] tribe, of a bugla Large trading vessel. [ buggalow Large trading vessel. , or boat] off the Oman coast at Rasel Hudd [Ra’s al Ḥadd]. Enclosed with Anderson’s letter is letter no. 9 of 1855 from Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and the Honourable Company’s Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, addressed to Anderson, dated 19 March 1855. In his letter Hamerton writes that he doubts remonstrances made to Shaikh Mahommed bin Ali [Muḥammad bin ‘Alī] of Jaalan will make any difference, as those tribes under his nomimal control are Wahabees [ Wahhābī A follower of the Islamic reform movement known as Wahhabism; also used to refer to the people and territories ruled by the Al-Saud family. ] and believe they have a right to plunder any vessels in distress along the coast.

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IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 133-135

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7 Jul 1855 (CE, Gregorian)

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Letter no.2812 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/149, ff 133-135, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024052050.0x00002e> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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