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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 2 Jun 1852. 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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Robinson offers more details on his meeting with the Hajee Yacoob, the British agent at Sharjah. He writes in detail of a collision between two pearling boats from Debaye [Dubai] and Khaun, in which several men were injured with swords; a dispute arising from a slave that had absconded from an Abothabee [Abu Dhabi] boat, and then captured by a Dubai boat; and an act of piracy committed by a Ra's al-Khaymah boat at Zanzibar.

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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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IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 107-08

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2 Jun 1852 (CE, Gregorian)

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Letter no.102 from Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 107-08, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051547.0x000024> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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