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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎485] (527/733)

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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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BENIYAS.
485
A hollow treaty of peace on land was entered into in July 1843 bv
t ie Joasrnee and Beniyas Chiefs, but immediate or temporary advan
tage of however trifling a nature, being the only rule of action among
rabs, it was not destined to have a longer existence than its predeces-
sors. Khaleefa bin Shakboot, accompanied by a respectable force of
horse and camel-men, principally of the tribes of Monasir and Moozareah,
proceeded (August-September 1843) on a foray, and plundered the Beni
Cuttub Ghuflah, and Naeem Bedouins, tribes in alliance with the Joas-
mee Chief, the greater portion of whom were themselves absent on a
upao on the Batinah Coast, of a great number of camels and sheep,
anc much property. On their return, they also carried off a number of
camels belonging to the same tribes, which had been sent for security
o Zeit, in the immediate neighbourhood of Ras-ool-Khyma, and under
the protection of its chief.
Muktoom bin Butye of Debaye was supposed to have instigated this
open rupture of the treaty of peace by land, which had so lately been
formed. The remonstrances of Sultan bin Suggur, and his son Suggur,
1 evailed only so far as to draw forth promises of restoration of the
^be fulfiH d 6 Part ^ the BeniyaS ' Which were of course ne ver meant
CONCLUSION, TO THE YEAR 1853,
BY LIEUTENANT H. F. DISBROWE.
Captain Kemball Informs us, at the close of his Sketch of the Beniyas
a. d. 1843. ribe ' that a hollow treaty of peace on land was
p,,. r . conc ^ uc * e( ^ etween ^e Joasmee and Aboothabee
ins! 'f^n f e T 0n,h 0f JU ' y 1843 ; that the laMer ' at the supposed
gallon of the Chief of Debaye, hastened to break the peace bv
g TV , A Tr nd and plundering
the Joasmee .'b , ' ' 3661,1 Tl ' ibeS ' in aIlia "<=« ^it^
the Bitinah r 6 grea j portlon of whom were themselves away on
he Batinah Coast; and finally, he tells us that promises to resto "
the plunder were made by Khaleefa bin Shakboot, which it was sun
posed he never meant to fulfil. ^ SUps
Such was the posture of affairs at Aboothabee towards the close of
a. d. 1844. tlle y ear :l 843, and in such a condition did thev
remain until the summer of the ensuino- vpc *
when wc gather, from reports furnished by the British Agent at Shargah,'

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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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