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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎637] (681/733)

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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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SLAVE TRADE.
637
we never can prevent: the slaves will be disguised and concealed in a
1 lion sand ways, so that it will be impossible for us to detect them; and
1 doubt whether more harm than good might not be done to the cause
of humanity by stopping boats, and searching them for slaves, because
it would in all cases occasion such disgust and offence as would involve
a great risk of a renewal of hostilities.
" I do not believe that any of the parties to the Treaty do carry off
slaves,"- all those they possess being purchased at Muskat and other
places. But at all events it would be difficult, even in the former case,
to detect them,—in the latter next to impossible; and with all our
efiorts we shall find it impracticable to put a stop to a traffic which is
sanctioned by their religion and by immemorial custom, unless it were
relinquished by the common consent of the whole of the Chiefs of this
Gulf."
Finally, the Bombay Government thus declared, in its letter No 393
dated 26th March 18231
rhe Article relating to the Slave Trade does certainly not bear the-
construction that has hitherto been put on it. It evidently only alludes
to descents made on the Coast of Africa for the purpose of making
slaves. This is justly declared to be plunder and piracy,—terms which
it would have been an abuse of language to apply to any trade,
however detestable, as long as it was peacefully conducted. In this
sense the Article must be understood, but every infringement of it, when
clearly established, must be resented as a case of piracy would be."
On the 29th August lb22 a Treaty;|: was concluded with His Highness^
the Imaum of Muskat by Captain Moresby, of His Majesty's ship.
Menai, under the instructions of the Government of the Isle of France.
A letter was received from His Highness the Imaum of Muskat at
Zanzibar in July 1837, complaining of the aggressions committed by
The Joasmees have been accused of stealing and carrying off slaves from the African.
Coast, but the crime was not proven. They are nevertheless supposed to have been frequently
guilty of it. ^ ^
t Again, the opinion of the Right Honorable the Governor General in Council, as conveyed
in the 9th paragraph of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of India, dated 22nd
March 1841 " That with regard to those chieftains who entered into engagements with Sir
W. G. Keir in 1820, it would not be prudent or right abruptly, and until by friendly com
munications a sufficient ground shall have been laid for such a course, to declare all trading in
slaves to be piracy and plunder, and to attempt to enforce Article IX. according to "the
English version of the Treaty, which indeed has been found not to correspond with the native
wording; and considering that it has not in consequence been acted upon for the last twenty
years, the force of that Article must be considered as in a great measure suspended."
Suffice it to say, that not one single seizure has been made under its provisions, altllou 0- !!
twenty-four years have elapsed since the date of its formation, and the trade continues
flourish.
1" A copy of which is annexed.
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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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