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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [523] (565/733)
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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KHOR HASSAN. 593
eighteen of which he captured. He captured also a ship, and several
ows and small craft belonging to Muskat, Bushire, Congoon, &c., and,
AVi 1 very few exceptions, put the crews to death. Apprehensions were
generally entertained that, if measures were not pursued to reduce his
growing strength, the whole of the Gulf would, as soon as our cruisers
quitted the station, be reinfested with his spoliators
In the month of May 1811 Rahmah bin Janbir again pot to sea, on
a. d. 1811. a cril i s i n g expedition, accompanied by a fleet of
t . . b0atS belon g in g to the Joasraee Tribe called
kjman, that inhabited the coast to the northward of Ras-ool-Khyma
w ich escaped without suffering any injury from the late expedition.
A desperate action was fought between Rahmah's fleet and the
Uttoobees of Bahrein, in which the latter were victorious.
Some captures having been made in the Gulf, and remonstrances
a. d. 1813. s f nt 10 the Wahabee, and the Chiefs of Eas-ool-
, , Khyma and Khor Hassan, Rahmah bin Jaubir.
in a letter dated the 27th of October, detailed the circumstances attend
ing the capture of a
Buggalow
Large trading vessel.
from Bussora with horses on board
belonging to the Honorable East India Company, of which he was nol
aware, but as soon as he found they were British property, he eno-a-ed
boats to convey them to Bombay, where they all arrived in safety ° "
n the 26th of October 1816 Mr. Bruce reported that the famous
a. d. 1816. Piratical Chieftain Rahmah bin Jaubir, with all
' 1 ' s ' )oa,s i and tribe, consisting of about five
hundred famihes, had arrived at Bushire, and the Governor, Shaikh
Mahomed, had received them, and allotted them a particular quarter of
the town to reside in, on condition of being friends with his friends, and
enemies with his enemies; that he possessed two very large Bnggalows
a t T,^ ' an '' | SeVeral S " a " ^'Sgarahs- He gave out that ho
intended leaving ofl h.s predatory life, and to employ his boats on mer-
cantile concerns,-at all events as long as he resided at Bushire Mr
Bruce thought he would be en peaceable terms with most of the ports'
of the Gulf, as the Bushire Government was so with them.
The Imaum was anxious for Rahmah bin Jaubir to have accompanied
nm to Muskat, and offered him any of his ports to settle in ; but his late
defeat had shown such a want of foresight and judgment that he had
v! .If, f araC, T T Ch in the estimati0n of the Arab Tribes: Rahmah
was therefore afraid to pnt himself so much in his power He would
not have left his former abode if he could have avoided it JThe
W ahabee Chief, Abdoolla bin Saood, was so incensed against him for
avmg taken part with the Imaum of Muskat, that he directed his pro
perty and family to be seized, and brought up to Deriah, and it was
with great difficulty he was able to get them from Khor Hassan,
C8
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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)
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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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