"مختارات من سجلات حكومة بومباي" [‎٦‎٥‎٨] (٧٣٣/٧٠٢)

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slave trade.
Translation of a Letter without date, hut addressed in September 1822
by His 'Highness the Imaum of Muskat to His Excellency Sir
Robert T. Farquhar, Governor of the Isle of France.
If any ships belonging to my people carry slaves to Christian conn-
tries, I have fully permitted you to order your vessels to seize any Arab
vessels having a cargo of slaves beyond Madagascar, after four months
after date of this letter.
Translation of a Letter addressed on the same occasion by His High
ness the Imaum of Muskat to the Governor of Zanzibar, Sfc.
Whoever receives this letter at Zanzibar, at Quiloa, or any parts
within my dominion, it is to let you know, that I ha\e permitted my
friends the English to keep an Agent in any part of my country they
may choose, and you are to give a house to the English Agent, and
wherever he may stay you are to pay him great respect, and no one
must refuse to receive the Agent.
On the Mth December 1839, His Highness the Imaum of Muskat
consented to the three following Articles being added to the fore-
qoing Treaty for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, concluded
by His Highness with Captain Moresby in September 1822.
I agree that the following Articles be added to the above Treaty,
concluded by Captain Moresby on the aforesaid date.
A rticle I.
That the Government cruisers, whenever they may meet vessels
belonging to my subjects beyond a direct line drawn from Cape Delgado,
passing two degrees seaward of the island of Socotra, and ending at
Pussem, and shall suspect that such vessel is engaged in the Slave
Trade, the said cruisers are permitted to detain and search it.
A rticle II.
Should it on examination be found that any vessel belonging to my
subjects is carrying slaves, whether men, women, or children, for sale,
beyond the aforesaid line, then the Government cruisers shall seize and
confiscate such vessel and her cargo. But if the said vessel shall pass
beyond the aforesaid line, owing to stress of weather, or other case of
necessity, not under control, then she shall not be seized.