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Letter no.240 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay [‎214v] (2/6)

The record is made up of 3 folios. It was created in 17 Aug 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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The letter and its enclosures relate to relations between the Shaikh of Ras-el-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah], Sultan bin Suggur [Sultan bin Saqr], and the British, over the importation of slaves into the Arabian peninsula. Jones writes that Shaikh Sultan has complained about his treatment by the British in relation to the slave trade. Following Jones’s letter is the translation of a letter (folio 215) from Shaikh Sultan to Jones, dated 24 July 1856, in which the complaints are made, with the suggestion that the slave trade exists elsewhere in the ports of the Arabian peninsula as well. A translation of Jones’s reply to Shaikh Sultan (folio 216), dated 16 August 1856, includes Jones’s rejection of Shaikh Sultan’s complaints, with the suggestion that the Shaikh attend to the presence of slaves in his own ports and bazaars.

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Letter no.240 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay [‎214v] (2/6), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 214-216, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023736813.0x000036> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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