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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAYY.
535
dispute between the rulers of Muscat and Zanzibar. On her way
the 4 Punjaub ' visited Hullaniyah, in the Kooria-Mooria group,
one of the stations of the Red Sea and Indian Telegraph
Company, and landed supplies for the staff of that Company,
who had only remaining one barrel of biscuit and quarter of a
barrel of salt pork. On the 12th of June, the 6 Punjaub'
arrived at Muscat, where she found the 4 Elphinstone' and
4 Mahi/ and, after the Brigadier and his associates had obtained
the necessary information, and Mr. H. Rassam was installed as
Acting British Agent* with the Imaum, Syed Tooweynee,
the 4 Punjaub ? sailed again for Bombay on the 20th.
During the year 1860, the 4 Semiramis,' Commander Balfour,
'Clive,' Lieutenant Sedley, and gunboat 'Clyde,' Lieutenant
Dickson, were employed under the orders of the Supreme
Government, chiefly at the Straits Settlements, and Andaman
Islands, then under Major Haughton, whose rule, firm but kind,
extending over a period of three years, was of such incalculable
value to that penal colony, then struggling from infancy to its
present vigorous state of adolescence. In November, the 6 Semi
ramis' and 'Clive' returned to Bombay, and the former sailed
on the 19th December, with Sir George Clerk, for Sedasheghur,
(of which Commander Fraser, in the ' Falkand,'was engaged
making a survey) as the Governor wished personally to inspect
that port and judge as to its capabilities for the cotton trade.
About the same time the gunboat 4 Clyde' was recalled from
her station at the Andaman Islands, and proceeded to Bombay,
and the steam-sloop 4 Lady Canning,' commanded by Lieu
tenant James, which had been placed under the orders of
Major Haughton, was handed over to the Bengal Marine, and
Lieutenant James and his officers and men returned to Bombay,
the Royal Navy taking over the duties in the Bay of Bengal.
Before the close of the year 1860, the ships employed in the
China Expedition began to arrive at Bombay. On the 15th of
December, the 4 Zenobia ' Lieutenant Chitty, returned, and, on
the 20th, the 'Victoria,' Lieutenant Wood, who, two days after
his arrival, commissioned the new gunboat ' Hugh Rose,' a sister
vessel, as to size and armament, of the 'Clyde. On the 5ih of
January, 1861, arrived from China, the 4 Dalhousie,' Commander
Hopkins, and the ' Berenice,' Lieutenant Robinson; on the 18th,
from Singapore, the ; Assaye,'Commander Adams, and, on the
25th, the 4 Coromandel,' Commander Batt, who, on his return
from Europe, had proceeded round to the eastward to relieve
Lieutenant Walker. This officer, on the 14th of February, took
command of the 6 Prince Arthur, in place of Commander
* In the following May, Lieutenant M. W. Pengelley, LN., was appointed
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Muscat, as a reward for his meritorious services as second in
command of the Land Transport Corps during the Persian War, but was suc
ceeded by Major Malcolm Green in 1862.
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