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Letter no.331 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay [‎166r] (9/10)

The record is made up of 5 folios. It was created in 1 Oct 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 copy of a letter with its enclosures sent to Lieutenant Tronson of the Company Brigantine Tigris , relating to acts of aggression between pearling vessels owned by the Sheikhs of Dubai and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]. Kemball writes that, with the Government's permission, he will warn the Sheikhs concerned of harsher punitive measures (specifically the destruction of pearling boats) if premediated attacks continue. The full list of enclosures are as follows:

1) Letter no.330 of 1852 (ff 163-64) from Kemball to Lieutenant Tronson, Commanding the Honourable Company's Brigantine Tigris , Bassadore, dated 1 October 1852. Kemball's letter encloses translated extracts of correspondence from the Sharjah Agent Hajee Yacoob, as follows:

2) A translation of a letter (ff 164-65) from Hajee Yacoob, British agent at Sharjah, to Kemball, dated 22 June 1852. Yacoob reports of pearls stolen from a Himreyah [near Dubai] pearling vessel, by the members of a pearling vessel from Abu Dhabi;

3) A translation of a second letter (ff 165-66) from Yacoob to Kemball, dated 1 September 1852. Yacoob reports of an attack upon a Sharjah pearling boat by a vessel from Dubai, resulting in injury to one of the Sharjah crew, and his subsequent meeting with Sheikh Saeed ben Butye [Sa'id bin Butti] of Dubai.

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Letter no.331 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay [‎166r] (9/10), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/130, f 162-66, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051737.0x0000a3> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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