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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [372] (414/733)
The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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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372
UTTOOBEES.
ready mart for their plundered property at Bahrein, but purchased,
■with the proceeds, supplies of dates and rice, and of all kinds of stores
necessary for their vessels, which were brought to Bahrein in abundance
by the ships belonging to Arab owners residing at Bombay.
46. That it was impossible under these circumstances to look on
Bahrein in any other light than that of a piratical port ; for although they
may not individually commit piracies in their own vessels, the assistance
they afford to those freebooters operates to the same end, and, in fact,
considerable numbers of the crews of the pirate boats are actually com
posed of the inhabitants of that island, who proceed to Ras-ool-Khyma,
and enter on board for a cruise. If successful, they return to their
homes; if not, they continue there until their avarice is satisfied.
CONTINUATION OF THE FOREGOING SKETCH, TO
THE YEAR 1831,
BY LIEUTENANT S. HENNELL.
Mr. "Warden terminates his account of this tribe in a. d . 1817, by
alluding to the opinion entertained by Mr. Bruce, that although not
actively engaged in piracy themselves, they could be looked upon in no
other light than as piratical, as they were the receivers and purchasers of
a great portion of the property plundered by the Joasmees, and not only
gave them free access to their ports, but supplied them with all kinds of
provisions and warlike stores.
Notwithstanding the signal defeat experienced by the Imaum in his
attack upon this island, the Uttoobees were kept for some time in a
state of suspense, in consequence of His Highness proceeding with his
fleet to Congoon, to wait for the reinforcements promised him by the
Shiraz Government, for the purpose of making a second attempt. But
their apprehensions were subsequently removed by the arrival of a
messenger by name Sikundur Khan, who was sent over by that Court to
Bahrein, to offer terms to the Shaikhs, which they agreed to, and, in
return for the presents which they sent, were presented with honorary
dresses by the Prince of Fars.
In the month of February 1819, a report having been received that
several Indian women had been brought from
a. d . 1819. Kas-ool-Khyma, and publicly sold in the bazar of
Bahrein, Captain Lock, of His Majesty's Ship Eden, in company with
five vessels of war, proceeded to that island, to procure their liberation.
After some negotiation, the Bahrein Shaikh succeeded in convincing the
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
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Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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