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Letter no.369 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay [199r] (3/14)
The record is made up of 7 folios. It was created in 27 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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Kemball writes on the current state of affairs between the various rulers of the Arab coast. Kemball states his apprehension over a contested succession in Dubai, in the wake of the death of Sheikh Maktum bin Butti, and Sheikh Sai'd bin Tahnun of Abu Dhabi's designs on Dubai. Two enclosures are included with the letter:
1) A translation of a letter (ff 201-02) from Hajee Yacoob, the British agent at Sharjah, to Kemball, dated 2 October 1852. Yacoob reports on a number of events: a Dubai vessel and its crew being attacked by armed men at Wukrah [Al-Wakrah]; and a raid by the Beni Kuttub tribe on the Beni Yas, in which 80 camels were taken and one man killed, resulting in increased tensions and negotiations for the return of the camels and payment of blood money, between Sheikh Sa'd in Tahnun of Abu Dhabi and Sheikh Sultan bin Saqr of Ra's al-Khaymah;
2) A translation of a letter (ff 203-04) from Hajee Yacoob, the British agent at Sharjah, to Kemball, dated 27 October 1852, reporting on intrigues at Dubai during Sheikh Sai'd bin Butti's absence, involving the capture of the fort at Dubai by the late Sheikh Maktum bin Butti's sons Soheil and Husher, in collaboration with their maternal uncle Majid ben Dulmuuj.
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Letter no.369 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay [199r] (3/14), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 198-204, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024051738.0x00001d> [accessed 16 April 2024]
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- Letter no.369 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay
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- 198r:204v
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