Letter no.232 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 115-16
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 24 Jul 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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Letter enclosing a report from Commodore Robinson, on his recent excursion to Rusel Khymah [Ra's al-Khymah] to make enquiries about the act of piracy committed by one of his subject's boats in Zanzibar. Kemball also writes of the grounding of a merchant vessel at Sharjah (the Centaur ) and the subsequent plundering of its cargo but local inhabitants. He also describes the maltreatment of the servants of the British agent Hajee Yacoob by Sharjah inhabitants, at the instigation of the Sheikh of Sharjah, Sultan ben Suggar [Sultan bin Saqr].
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- IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 115-16
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- Letter no.232 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
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- 115r:116v
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