"دليل الخليج. الجزء الأول. المواد التاريخية والسياسية. ملخص عن التوسع التركي على السواحل العربية للخليج العربي وشؤون الأحساء والقطيف" [‎٣‎٣] (١٦٠/٤٥)

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transferred by bill o£ sale to Hajee Zenail Abadeen, British subject o£ Bombay. Declaration
of ownership was lodged by me at the time in the Master Attendant's Office, Bombay. I was
going to sea at once, and I was informed by the Master Attendant that, as there was a pro
bability of the ship being sold to some Persians, all that would be necessary, after the money
was paid, would be for the register to be handed in, when it would be cancelled.
" In the meantime the negociations with the Persians fell through, and I am now authoriz
ed by the owner, Hajee Zenail Abadeen, to take out a new register. During the whole of my
absence I have looked upon him as my owner. I have remitted as. much as Rs. 20^000 or
Rs. 25,000 to him when coaling at Aden, and for stores at Kurrachee I drew upon him/'
Secret, December 1871, Nos. 1«153. (No. 156), * 13X. TIlG Bombciy GrOVGrniUGnt, ill &
♦ Page 234. Eesolution dated 27th July, observed* :—
" It would'appear that the owner of the S. S. Snipe is a British subject. There have
been negociations for the sale to Persian subjects, and apparently in anticipation of these
negociations being perfected, it was proposed to register the vessel in the names of the proposed
transferees, which Captain Pryce refused to permit, as the sale was not complete and the persons
named were foreigners."
In a letter of tlie 29th December 1871 Colonel Pelly incidentally men
tioned that he had been informed that the Turkish authorities had purchased
the Snipe.
132. Murder of a so-called Turkish Messenger at Bahrein.
On the 12th September Colonel Pelly forwarded certain papers regarding
0 x t% v 10^1 xt the seizure and death of an Arab of the
Secret, December 1871, Nos. 154-165. -r» • tt • • • j m ^ n i - -n n i
Jiem Ha] jir tribe at a nshing village called
Ageria on the south-west end of the Bahrein Island, He had already informed
Government of the occurrence by a telegram dated 1st September :—
" The several accounts of the matter," said Colonel Pelly in his letter, " are not alto
gether consistent one with another. But I gather generally that Nassir-bin-Mobarek, the
escaped pirate of 1869, sought service with, or the patronage of, the Turkish Commander at
Lahsa ; that he was more or less received into favour by the Commander ; that eventually
Nassir -bin-Mobarek, wishing to communicate with Gwuttur, selected a messenger from that
tribe to which he (Nassir) himself belonged on his mother's side, viz.y the Beni Hajjir ; that
this messenger was accordingly charged with letters by Nassir and proceeded to Ojair ; that at
Ojair the messenger embarked on board a Kowait boat, in company with a fleet of Bahrein
boats which were returning home ; that wanting water, or for other purpose, the Kowait boat,
together with the Bahrein fleet, put into Ageria on the Bahrein coast; that, while there
anchored, it came to the knowledge of one or more of the relatives of the late Chief of Bahrein,
Ali -bin-Khuleefa, that the messenger was the very man who had killed or aided in killing the
late Chief in the piratical attack of 1869; that in accordance with Arab laws of vengeance (and,
as the present Chief asserts, without in the first instance referring to him) the relatives of
the late Chief seized and killed the messenger ; that the clothes of the messenger were then
searched and found to contain letters addressed as follows
t In command of Turkish Troops. " From Fereck Pashaf to Jassim-bia-Maho-
X Son of Katar Chief. med binj Sanee.
« From Nassir-bin-Mobarek to ditto ditto.
" From the son of ditto to ditto ditto.§
" The Turkish Governmeut are mindful of Gwut- From Mahamed-bin-Ieysul to ditto ditto.
tar, Bahrein and Other places in View to putting down "From Abdel Malek-bin-Hershan to ditto
their enemies so that their fnendi may rejoice.
Please God you will soon receive news that may ditto.
gladden you. « jr roni son 0 f Nassir-bin-Mobarek to
Abdoollah-bin-Ghanem Asschatee ;
" And finally, that these letters were then brought to the present Chief of Bahrein, who
caused those from Nassir -bin-Mobarek, &c., to be opened, but caused the letter from the
Turkish Commander to be returned with all precautions to the Master of the Kowait craft,
and with instructions that the Master should carry it to its destined port and deliver it to its
addressee.
" The Chief of Bahrein subsequently enclosed the letters taken from the messenger a
corpse for my perusal, in original. i returned these letters to the Chief with a note, of which
a copy is appended."
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