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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎524] (566/733)

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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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KIIOR HASSAN.
Rahmah bin Janbir, after his arrival at Bushirc, paid the Resident a
visit, and renewed his professions of friendship towards the British Go
vernment, and requested the Resident to say that he should be happy to
attend to any wishes Government might have towards checking the
depredations of the Joasmees.
Mr. Brace having communicated to Rahmah bin Jaubir the friendly
A D 181 - > disposition towards him of the British Govern
ment, he expressed himself highly flattered:
he had just returned from a successful cruise to the southward of
Bahrein, against the Joasmee boats, which frequented that island for
supplies of dates, rice, &c. in return principally for the property of the
Sarat ships. He intercepted twelve boats laden with supplies proceed
ing to Ras-ool-Khyma, four of which he sank, after taking out their
cargoes ; four others he broke up for the want of men to man them, and
four he brought to Bushire. He intended, after landing the property
which he had brought to that pkice, to proceed again to the southward,
to cruise between the piratical ports and Bahrein.
In 1818 Rahmah bin Jaubir proceeded to, and landed with some guns
a. d. 1818 at ^ atee ^ wtl ich he battered, in concert with
Ibrahim Pacha, and commenced to rebuild his
old foit at Demaum, which the Wahabees had blown up in July 1816,
to which, when finished, he intended to remove from Bushire, with
his family and adherents.
CONTINUATION OF THE PRECEDING TO
THE YEAR 1831,,
BY LIEUTENANT S. IIENNELL.
Mr. Warden s Sketches conclude in 1818, by stating that Rahmah
in aubir had commenced the rebuilding of his fort at Demaum,*
which had been destroyed by the Uttoobees in 1816.
From the period above mentioned the records of the Bushire Resi-
a. d. 1819. dency make no mention of this notorious person
till July 1819, when he is stated to have been at
vateef at the time Captain Sadlier landed there on his mission to Ibra-
acha, and that he rendered that officer every assistance, piloting
the Vestal cruiser himself into the harbour.
* A fort on a small island opposite Bahrein, and close to Kateef,

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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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