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APPENDIX 7.
(No. 1.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot (British Consul-General at Bushire) to the Government of India.
Bushire, July 10, 1^92.
I HAVE the honour to forward, for the information of the Government of India, copy of a
letter which I have addressed to the Chief of Shargah, Head of the Joasim tribe, regarding the
recovery of some slaves freshly imported into Khor Fakan on the Batineh coast, a Joasim Chief-
ship. The Persian authorities have also been requested to recover such of them as can be traced
in Persia.
2. I have taken advantage of the departure of Her Majesty's ship " Sphinx " for Muscat by
way of Bahrain and the Arab coast to forward my letter through Commander Hart-Dyke, R.N.,
who will impress upon the Chief of Shargah the necessity for exertion in this case.
3. A further report will be submitted hereafter.
In closure in No. 1.
Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot to the Chief of Shargah.
(After compliments.) Bushire, June 30, 1892.
SOME time ago it was reported to me that one Salim-ul-Badi, a subject of lias-ul-Khaimah,
had arrived at Kiior Fakan from Zanzibar with some raw slaves, and that he had written to the
Chief of_Kas-ul-Khaimah inquiring whether he might bring the slaves to Ras-ul-Khaimah, but
had received no answer. I caused further inquiries to be made, and have now ascertained that
Salim-ul-Badi had with him thirty-three slaves, fifteen of whom he has by this time disposed of at
various places, ten are with him in his boat, while there are still eight belonging to him at Klior
Fakan. Ihe Sheikh of Khor Fakan is of your tribe and subordinate to you, and, in accordance
with the Agreement of 1847, it is my duty to call upon you as head of the Joasim to require
from the Sheikh of Khor Fakan the surrender of the eight slaves still at Khor Fakan.
I must further request you to recover from Salim-ul-Badi a fine of 70 dollars per head of
each of the thirty-three imported slaves, such fine to be reduced by 70 dollars for each slave
produced by him for manumission.
(No. 2.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot to the Government of India.
(Extract.) ^ Bushire, October 3, 1892.
I HAVE the honour to submit, for the information of the Government of India, copies of
correspondence regarding the slave-running operations of Salim-ul-Badi, a subject of the Chief of
Ras-ul-Khaimah.
2. Some delay has been caused in the submission of this report by the omission until quite
recently of the Sheikh of Ras-ul-Khaimah to reply to my letter to him of the 7th August last
ihis reply, received on the 1st instant, cannot, in my opinion, be considered as satisfactory.
I here can be no reasonable doubt that the Sheikh has been all along fully cognizant of Salim-ul-
Badi's proceedings, and although, according to the report first received from the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Agent, Shargah, he was said not to have replied to the letter in which Salim-ul-Badi announced
his arrival from Zanzibar with slaves, and asked whether he could safely come to Ras-ul-Khaimah,
his subsequent conduct in sheltering both him and the Sheikh of Khor Fakan, where the slaves
were first landed, makes him a particeps criminis in ail that has taken place. I have ascertained
personally from Commander Hart-Dyke, R.N., that the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent's report of his interview
with the Sheikh is correct, and there can be no real doubt of the latter's knowledge of Salim-ul-
Ladi s doings, though that is now disavowed by him.
^ ^ ie responsibility in this case must, I consider, be shared between the Sheikhs of Ras-ul-
Khaimah and Khor Fakan, and if they are not able to recover from Salim-ul-Badi a fine of 70
dollars for each slave imported, it must be exacted from them, in the proportion, I would suggest,
of two-thirds from the Sheikh of Ras-ul-Khaimah, who, as a Trucial Chief, is the worse offender,
and of one-third from the Sheikh of Khor Fakan. The Sheikh of Shargah, as the recognized
head of the Joasim, is responsible for the conduct of a subordinate Sheikh of the tribe, such as
Khor Lakan, even though the latter may not be directly under his authority. It is necessary to
enforce this responsibility, both in order to limit the number of the Sheikhs to whom Government
can look tor the repression of slavery to those with whom it has Treaty engagements, and also
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