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Letter no.164 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore J. P. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf [‎19v] (4/4)

The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 28 May 1851. 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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Covering letter to an enclosure: a translated extract of a letter from Moollah Houssein [Mullā Husayn], the British agent at Sharjah, to Hennell, dated 28 May 1851. In his report, Houssein states that he knows all those boats on the Trucial coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. departing for Africa, and describes the methods they employ in bringing slaves back from Africa, including landing at Soor [Sur] to monitor the situation, and landing further up the Batinah coast at night to drop slaves off, from which they are transported by land to the towns of the Trucial coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .

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Letter no.164 of 1851 from Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore J. P. Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf [‎19v] (4/4), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/127 ff 18-19, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100022698165.0x000027> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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