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^fidence to the townspeople^ securing the magazines, granaries, and
other public stores, endeavouring to re-open the bazaars, and in adopting
measures for the public safety, as well as in taking steps for obtaining
supplies. 1 " Later, it would seem, on the recommendation of Sir J.
Outram, he was replaced in the position of Resident, at least with re
ference to territories not included in the sphere of operations. At the
end of January 1857 Commander Jones was sent, along with the
ftev. P. Badger, who accompanied the forces in the capacity of
Arabic interpreter to Sir J. Outram, as well as of chaplain, to advise the
Arabs of Muhammareh to remain neutral in the approaching struggle at
that place ; and in the course of a fortnight he returned with a chart of
the river at Muhammareh and a sketch of the enemy ; s works, which he
had prepared. Commander Jones was not present at the actions of
Khushab or Muhammareh ; but he and Lieutenant Disbrowe were
mentioned in despatches, notwithstanding the unfavourable notice
which the engagements obtained by them from chiefs under the Persian
Government had attracted, for aid willingly rendered to the military
authorities. At the end of April Sir J. Outram advised Commander
Jones not to delay any longer a tour which he proposed making, in the
character of Resident, to various ports in his jurisdiction.
A political assistant on whose services Sir J. Outram appears to have
set a higher value was Captain A. B. Kemball^ British Political Agent
in Turkish Arabia, who arrived at Bushehr from Baghdad towards the
end of February 1857 and apparently placed himself at the disposal of
the General. Early in March Sir J. Outram sent him and the Rev.
Mr. Badger to Basrah to remove objections which were being raised by
the Turks to the intended British operations at Muhammareh, and to
Muhammareh or its neighbourhood to obtain information of the enemy^s
strength and dispositions,—two tasks in which Captain Kemball and his
colleague seem to have succeeded admirably. Mr. Badger appears to have
visited Kuwait a little later and to have brought back with him some
useful political information. Captain Kemball accompanied the flying
* Captain (afterwards General Sir) Arnold Burrowes Kemball entered the Bombay
Artillery in 1837. He saw service in Afghanistan, at Ghazni, in 1839 ; and in 1841 he
became Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf. In 1855 he was promoted to the
' s: : ^oiitical Agency in Turkish 'Iraq, in which he had previously officiated ; and an
acc ount of his services at Baghdad will be found in the chapter on the history of that
ri. province. In 1873 he attended the Shah of Persia during his first visit to England.
^ 1875-76, as mentioned elsewhere, he was employed on a Turko-Persian Boundary
Commission at Constantinople ; and in 1876 he accompanied tha Turkish army in
ei, via as a British Commissioner.