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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎215] (257/733)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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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MUSKAT. 215
Presents in money to a considerable amount have been sent up by
His Highness the Imaum from Zanzibar to all
the maritime chiefs, his object being to secure
their assistance next year in an expedition he has in contemplation
against his rebellious subjects of Seevee, who have lately defeated, with
great slaughter, a force sent by him to reduce them to obedience.
CONCLUSION, TO THE YEAR 1853,
BY LIEUTENANT DISBROWE, ASSISTANT RESIDENT, PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
We learn from the termination of Captain Kemball's Historical
Sketches of the Muskat Government, that His
Highness the Imaum was at this time meditating
an expedition against his rebellious subjects of Seevee, and had been
striving, by presents of money, to induce the maritime chiefs of the
Arabian Coast to assist him in the undertaking.
The plan was not lost sight of, nor did the Arab Chiefs fail to
espouse His Highness' cause ; for towards the latter end of December,
we find that troops to the number of one thousand left for Zanzibar in
the ship Naseeree and five Buggalows, the whole commanded by
Humeed bin Ahmed. To these must be added the auxiliaries from the
Arabian Coast, consisting of "the nephew of Abdoolla bin Rashid,
Chief of Amulgavine, with fifty men; Ali bin Rashid bin Humeed,
brother to the Ejman Shaikh, in his own Buleel, with sixty men ; and
Muktoom bin Butye, of Debaye, with three vessels." The result of the
expedition we shall learn in the sequel.
About this period (November 1844) the Imaum concluded aTreaty with
the King of the French. " A French squadron, commanded by Captain
De Fosse, arrived at Zanzibar, armed with full powers to enter into a
treaty with His Highness." The latter had already communicated with
the British Ministry, in order to obtain their sentiments on the proposed
measure; and an intimation having reached him, through Captain Ha-
merton, that no objections existed to his entering into relations with
the French, the Treaty* with that nation was at once concluded.
During the absence of His Highness at Zanzibar, whither he had
proceeded on a visit to his African possessions, the Government of
Muskat was left in the hands of his son Syud Soweynee, a man of a
temperament singularly weak and vacillating,—one totally unfit and
* Copy of this Treaty is annexed.

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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).

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1 volume (364 folios)
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The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.

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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.

The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.

Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.

The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.

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