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Letter no.133 of 1851 from Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf [65r] (5/6)
The record is made up of 3 folios. It was created in 12 Aug 1851. 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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Letter with two enclosures. Porter writes that Lt Balfour, Commanding Officer of the Euphrates , having demanded a boat from the Kenn [Kish] Island forces in lieu of the one captured from Bahrain, reports of further seizures by Faysal's people at Qais [Qeys] of Bahraini boats. Two enclosures are included with the letter (ff 64-65).
The first enclosure (f 64) is an extract of a letter from Lt Leeds, Commanding Officer of the Honourable Company's ship Constance , to Commodore Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , dated 7 July 1851. Leeds reports of his movements in the Gulf, and eventual anchorage off the coast of Sohar [Suhar], where two slave boys boarded the Constance on account of their master's ill-treatment. Leeds continues that the only way he could communicate with the two boys was with the help of a young man from Bushire being on board 'who spoke Hindustani badly and Arabic worse.' The second enclosure (f 64v-65) is an extract of a letter from Lt Balfour Commanding Office of the Honourable Company's ship Euphrates , to Commodore Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , dated 7 July 1851. Balfour reports from Kenn [Kish] Island that twenty-one boats under the charge of Sheikh Moobarack ben Ahmed [Mubarak bin Ahmad] are preparing to depart for Bahrain. Balfour reports of his departure for Sharjah, where he received intelligence from the native agent Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. , including details of boats departing from Abo Thabee [Abu Dhabi] to Bidha [aAl Bidda].
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Letter no.133 of 1851 from Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf [65r] (5/6), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/128, ff 63-65, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023211499.0x000081> [accessed 18 April 2024]
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- Letter no.133 of 1851 from Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf, to Lt-Col Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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- 63r:65v
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