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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [277] (319/733)
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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VISIT TO ZANZIBAR.
277
of the pleasure he had experienced in having an English man-of-war
with him, and his great attachment to the English nation, he shook my
hand in the most friendly manner, wishing me every success and hap
piness. He then attended me to the steps on the beach, where I bowed
and took my leave, and sailed the next morning.
The Imaum is said by his interpreter to be at the present period
(February 1834) forty-four years of age, but he appears to be more. He
is a tall, stout, and noble-looking man, with a benevolent countenance,
clear, intelligent, sharp-eyed, and remarkably pleasant and agreeable in
conversation. He is greatly attached to the English, and everything
that is English, and appeared to have a pride in telling me "all his
saddles were made in England." He was wounded some years since
when in a joint expedition with the English ; and appears to wish to be
considered as an Englishman in everything. The English, he says, he
looks upon as his brothers, and will willingly give them his country. He
married the grand-daughter of the king of Persia, but in consequence of a
quarrel between His Highness and the King of Persia about the English,
he lost his wife, and she is now detained in Persia. He has three sons :
the eldest, twenty-one years of age, is now in charge of Muskat, and
the other two are with him at Zanzibar. When His Highness visited
this island last year, the eldest son was then left at Muskat, but some
disturbance taking place. His Highness was obliged to return. He has
now been here about two months, and it is understood that if things
remain quiet at Muskat he will remain here for a year or two longer.
His Highness has lately been endeavouring to form an alliance with
the Queen of Madagascar, by offering his hand, and sent an Am
bassador to the Court of Tananareiro for that purpose. This Ambas
sador returned last December, and met the Imaum at Samoo, on his
way down from Muskat. His Highness had long been expecting
these tender documents, and, cruel as love-letters always are, he found,
contrary to all expectation, that they were written in English,—not only
the letter from the Queen, but also those from her Ministers. His
Highness had no one who could translate these letters, for although his
Ambassador could speak English, yet he could not read it, and His
Highness was obliged to have recourse to an English brig laying in
the roads, the Master of which, as good luck would have it, being-
able to read. This Master was therefore employed to read the royal
Queen's tender letter to the Ambassador, whilst he translated it to the
anxious ear of his royal master. And thus it was that His Highness
became acquainted with the reply to his royal love from the Madagascar
Queen. The solemnity observed upon the occasion can better be
imagined than I describe : fortunately for the nautical reader, there was
no love or state secret imposed, or the good-natured man might have
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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