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afford every assistance to the enbarkation arid conveyance
of the troops.
21. The material portions of the Imam's letter to
the Governor of Bombay are as follows; "With regard to the
ooservations made by you, connected with the removal of the
troops from Ras-al-Khaima to Kishm, God knows that the
Precis Island in question, and all other territories, appertaining
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to me and subject to my authority, appertain also to the
Honourable Company, and that I do not reckon these
dominions as appertaining to me, but as appertaining to the
Honourable Company".
21 . The Imam's letter is, as will be noted, in very
general terms, and couched in hyperbolical language not
unusual in Oriental communications; and which would, indeed
on a strict interpretation, cover not only Kishm, but
Muscat itself. On the other hand the letter was with
specific reference to a request (the terms of which are not
on record) for the removal to Kishm of the British
detachment stationed in the Gulf.
22. The Persian Government on a communication being
made to them in accordance with the instructions referred to
in paragraph 16 above, made it clear that they by no means
welcomed the idea of a British occupation of Kishm or any
other Island in the Gulf. The Shah refused a personal
Lor.i.1936 interview to the Chargd d'Affaires and communicated his
Precis instructions on the point through his Ministers. These were
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to the effect (Tehran Despatch of 10th May 1820), that when
the proposal had oeen previously made (in 1800-1) for the
cession of an Island in the Persian Gulf, the Shah had not
been prepared to entertain it; that His Imperial Majesty
considered that a proposal of such importance as the present
was one which ought to originate either from His Britannic
Majesty, from the PJast India Company, or f rom the Governor-