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Part V-Chap. XXXIX
CHAPTER XXXIX.
IXTEXDED SEIZURE BY PERSIAN AUTHORITIES OF BAXDAR
ABBAS; THE IMAM'S COMPROMISE OF PERSIAN
CLAIMS.
308. From a letter from Gulab Chundar, the Hon'ble Company's Broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation.
at Maskat, to the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay,
dated 26th April 1823, it appears that in that year Zuki Khan Muri left
Shiraz, professedly for the purpose of effecting some arrangement regarding
Bunder Abbas and the ports adjacent, but in fact to get them into his
possession, out of the hands of the Imam. The Imam, as soon as he
was informed of the real views of Zuki Khan, set sail with his two ships
for Bunder Abbas, when he entered into terms of pacification with Zuki
Khan, by which it was settled that for each of the two coming years, the
Imam should pay 3,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. over and above the stipulated tribute
already yielded, and that after the expiration of the two years, the usual amount
of tribute only should be required by Persia. The Imam presented Zuki
Khan with 500 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. and he returned after Zuki Khan's departure;
Mirza Bakir arrived in a vessel, bringing with him two persons who had
formerly been subjects of His Highness, but had cast oft their allegiance
and joined with the Persians, and were now desirous to be reconciled to the
Imam; there were Hussain xMi Khan Hakim of Bunder Abbas, and Ali
Khan Hakim of Menaw. The Imam received them on board his ship with
apparent kindness and presented them with killats, after which they, with
Mirza Bakir, left the ship in a muchwa, which had not gone far when it
sunk, and all in her perished: this was the report the broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. heard at
first; but on the Imam's return to Maskat, he made careful enquiries, and
felt no doubt that these three persons were seized on board His Highness's
ship and conveyed to Maskat, where they were now confined without hope
of release.