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'Abbas showed that in May 1740 the despatch of a Portuguese fleet
from Europe to the Gulf was expected, but it never arrived. In Maroh
1758, when Dr. Ives passed Kung, that place was in ruins and had
apparently been deserted by the Portuguese.
Proceedings of the Dutch in the Persian Gulf, 1722-63.
Proceedings The Dutch, at the beginning- of the period now under diecussion, had
at ^ 6 Bandar factories at Bandar 'Abbas and Basrah. In Persia their attitude towards
'Abb fig and the native powers seems to have been generally more compliant than that
before their of the English; but towards the Afghans, as we have already seen,
occupation of ^ e j r conduct in 1728 was by no means subservient, and it was only in
Kharag , . . ^\
Island, 1722- consequence of British mediation that they gave up Hormuz, which
they had seized. As has been related in the history of affairs at Bandar
'Abbas, the Dutch assisted the Persian expedition against 'Oman with
the loan of a ship, and in 1740 they made a show of helping the Persian
authorities to suppress a mutiny of the Arab crews of the Persian navy.
In 1744 they joined a Persian emissary from Shir az in an attempt to
arrest the Persian Governor of Bandar 'Abbas; but their action was
neutralised by that of the British. In 1747, at the invitation of a
Sardar, the Dutch re-established a settlement at Bushehr which they had
closed; the employe sent to reside there was a Mynheer Belvelt from the
Basrah Residency, who took with him a supply of sugar, sugar-candy,
camphire and some spices. In 1748 the Dutch began to talk of aban
doning their Factory at Bandar 'Abbas, which no longer yielded much
profit; and at the beginning of 1751 it was ascertained by the British
Agent that they had thoughts of seizing Kharag and removing their
Bandar 'Abbas Factory to that island. Early in 1752 Nasir Khan of
Lar visited Bandar 'Abbas, where he laid the Dutch and their depen
dents under contribution; and in April of that year a determined effort
was made by the British to stifle a business in woollens at Basrah which
the Dutch carried on from Aleppo, the British Hesident at Basrah
receiving " particular directions to undersell them and endeavour to render
this Branch of T rade disadvantageous by all fair means that he could
possibly invent . In 1752 the Dutch still continued to maintain a
Residrnt at Bandar 'Abbas, and it was reported that they intended to raise
the status of the Factory, which had been reduced, to its former level. These
chcumstnces led the British Agent I to oppose suggestion that had been
made for the removal of the British Factory ; and the event justified his