'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [476] (518/733)
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476
BENIYAS.
his party threw twenty-five bodies overboard, and that the same number
were taken away wounded. This makes thirty-three killed in this boat
alone, and it is highly gratifying to me to find that none of the survivors
originally belonging to the vessel were hurt by us. Two of them had
been cut and stabbed by the pirates, and two others injured in the
contest with them. They abandoned the
Buggalow
Large trading vessel.
about 4 p m
preferring the peril of a raft to again falling into the hands of the pirates'
whom they expected to return. The other
Buggalow
Large trading vessel.
must have suffered
much more, and it is a matter of deep regret that we could not get up
with her. ^ Salim states that it was the intention of the pirates, after taking
the Nassir, to proceed to Ras-ool-IIud, for the purpose of committing
more depredations."
Ihis exhibition of the determination and power to put down piracy
very materially facilitated the attainment of our objects, and accelerated
compliance with the demands now made, of which the following is a
list, enumerating the various vessels plundered, not including the
Muskat brig Curlew, the British
Buggalow
Large trading vessel.
Bury a Dowlut, and various
boats belonging to the Joasmees and others (between whom, however,
and the Beniyas war had again lately broken out)
Ust of the demands to he made on the Chief of Aboothabee, in compen
sation for the outrages committed by the Beniyas on the peaceable
Arabs of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
Number.
Description of Vessels.
Value of Vessels
and Cargoes, in
German Crowns.
1 Muskat
Buggalow
Large trading vessel.
and cargo
2 Bahrein Buteel
10,000
439
5,903
500
250
250
500
766
300
5, 8, 9, 10, 15 Boats of various descriptions of Lingah
3 Bahrein Bnggalow (Nukhlowe)
11 Karrack
Buggalow
Large trading vessel.
12 Bushire Bug2 ;arah.
(i Nukhlowe Buggarah (Mahomed)
7 Lingah Buggarah
13 Moolla Hussein,
16 Bunder Malla, &c.
17 Bin Saleh's Buteel
18 Sooedad's Buteel .
14 Losses inflicted on people of Bassadore
19 Congoon
Buggalow
Large trading vessel.
439
500
250
4,500
Total
24,597
A Beniyas Buteel, with a valuable cargo from India, touching at
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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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