News from Muskat [‎886v] (8/8)

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This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. Secret Department to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. , Number 94[?] of 1840.

The enclosure consists of a letter from Captain Atkins Hamerton, on mission to Muskat [Muscat], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. , Lestock Robert Reid, dated 13 October 1840. Hamerton reports news including: the arrival of a large gooncha (a vessel similar to a bugla Large trading vessel. ) at Muskat from Bahrein [Bahrain]; the death of Nassir Ullah Khan [Naṣr[?] Allāh Khān], the ferman ferman [ Firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). Firma] of Shiraz; the report of the King of Persia [Shāh of Iran] having concluded a peace for one hundred thousand toomans [ tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. ] with the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Baghdad being untrue; relations between the Governor of Shargah [Sharjah], Hisson Suggur [Ḥasan[?] Saqr] and his father the Chief of Rasel Khymah [Ras Al Khaimah], Sultan bin Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. ]; and relations between the Imam of Muskat and the ‘Chief’ of Sohar, Hamard bin Azan [Ḥamūd bin Azan Āl Bū Sa‘īd].

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