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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎225] (267/733)

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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.
225
Before entering upon the subject which now commands our chief
attention, and led to such grave results,—I mean the conflict between
the Muskat and Sohar Chiefs,—it is necessary that I should briefly
describe a case of murder and piracy that had caused much agitation
for a period of two years, and also make a short notice of a fresh treaty
entered into by the British nation, for the abolition of the slave trade.
First, then, the piracy. So far back as the latter end of the year
1846, news reached the British Agent at Muskat of the destruction by
fire of a Bombay Buggalow Large trading vessel. , under British colours, off the island of
Busheab, on the Persian Coast. Other rumours likewise were freely
circulated, regarding the fate of the above vessel. I shall not
recount the numerous steps that were taken to establish the facts of
the case, nor how the pirate and murderer contrived for a considerable
time to evade the hands of justice ; but simply give an outline of what
did really occur, and in what manner the criminal was eventually
disposed of.
In the month of September 1846 a Buggalow Large trading vessel. , belonging to Nansee
Thakersee, a Bombay merchant, set sail from Muskat for the Presi
dency, She was commanded by one Ahmed bin .Dad Kureem, a
Beloochee, INative of Muttra, subject to the Tmaum of Muskat. Having
arrived in the vicinity of the island of Busheab, Ahmed bin Dad
Kureem formed the project of plundering, and possessing himself of
all the treasure in the vessel. He seems in the first instance to have
endeavoured to carry out his purpose by stealth, and quietly, for in the
dead of night, whilst the supercargo, in whose charge the money was,
was asleep, he repaired to the treasure chest, and was in the act of
making off with its contents, when one Moorad, a sailor on board,
remonstrated with him, and caused him to desist. The Nakhoda's plans'
being thus frustrated, he resolved to rid himself of his opponents, and
to perform by force what he was unable to do by stealth. The following
night, accordingly, at an advanced hour, whilst his unsuspecting victims
were in a profound sleep, he, with a number of his followers, fell upon
and savagely butchered both Moorad and the supercargo : he likewise
put an end to the existence of an unfortunate slave, who happened to
be standing by at the time. Some of the crew, affrighted, leaped into
the sea ; many took part in the bloody deed ; and the rest, however well
disposed in their hearts to resist, were too much overawed by the fierce
brutality and fiendish threats of the Nakhoda and his accomplices to
dream of opposing them. Ahmed bin Dad Kureem vowed instLn-
taneous death to any man of the party who would not take the oath of
the Zun-tullak # to keep inviolate secrecy. They then, one and all, nine-
* The most solemn form of oath among Arabs-" By the divorce of the wife."

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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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