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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎644] (688/733)

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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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644 SLAVE TRADE.
for by all the members of the several treaties which have been entered
into touching this trade ; therefore no interference with the native vessels
in the Gulf having slaves on board existed on our part, excepting in
cases where it could be proved that these had been kidnapped by the
crews, or their carrying Soraalees for sale. The difficulty attending the
production of proof touching the former exception (unless by the aid of
qualified Agents at Zanzibar, and on the African Coast) is fully admit
ted; but there is no possibility of passing an individual of the Somalee
Tribe for a Negro, and therefore a thorough search of the vessel sus
pected of having any on board must always tend to their discovery.
Little prospect exists of persuading the Arabian Chiefs to resign of
their own accord a practice consonant to their social and religious habits,
and at the same time uniting profit with convenience. So long as the
Shaikhs on the coast are satisfied they are not likely to incur a positive
injury or loss from us, in consequence of their continuing the existing
traffic in slaves, they will not consent to any arrangements having in
view its abolition ; but were a declaration on the part of the British
Government made, intimating its being considered expedient and right
that the purchase and sale of human beings by the independent Mari
time Chiefs of Arabia should cease after a certain period, and that any
infractions of such a prohibition would be punished, it would probably
be submitted to without opposition, although rather as an act of autho
rity it were useless to attempt to oppose or contend against than from
any conviction of the justice or propriety of the demand.
Next to such a measure as the above, a great check, if not a total
stop might be put to the traffic in slaves, on the part of the independent
chiefs on the Arabian Coast of this Gulf, were advantage to be taken of
the declaration made by His Highness the Imaum regarding the irre
gular proceedings of the Joasmees on their coasts, to obtain from His
Highness a notification prohibiting these boats from visiting his
African possessions on any pretext whatever, and giving authority to
our vessels of war to seize any such boats found cruising within the
limits of his territories. So far as it can be ascertained, the only places
where slaves can be procured are within such limits, and on the coast
of Berbera. As the inhabitants of the latter country are Somalees, all
vessels belonging to most of the Arabian Shaikhs of this Gulf are
liable to seizure if found with one individual of the latter description
on board. But that part of the Gulf of Aden and Zanzibar are only
visited by native vessels from this Gulf at certain seasons of the year
(from November to May), and therefore arrangements might be made
by the political authority at the former port for the due surveillance of
the Berbera Coast. Were it plainly notified to the independent Mari
time Arabian Chiefs that His Highness the Imaum had interdicted their

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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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