"ملخص لمراسلات تتعلق بشؤون الخليج الفارسي، ١٨٠١-١٨٥٣" [ظ‎‎٤] (٣٤٤/٨)

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For contemporary history, in addition to the Bombay Selections referred
to above, the following works may be usefully read:—
Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Residency and Maskat
Agency for 1887-1888— Sketch of the career of Seyyid Sultan-bin*
Ahmed of Maskat by Colonel Miles.
Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Residency and Maskat
Agency for 1883-1884— Sketch of the career of Seyyid Said-bin-Sultan,
Imam of Maskat, by Colonel Miles.
Brydges (Sir Harford Jones)— An account of the transactions of His
Majesty's Mission to the Court of Fersia (Vol. I) and a Brief
History of the Wahauby (Vol. II), 1834.
Buckingham (J. S.)— Travels in Assyria, Media and Fersia, 1829.
Curzon (the Hon'ble G. N.)— Fersia and the Persian Question, 1892.
Kaye (J. W.)— The Life and Correspondence of Sir John Malcolm,
1856.
Low (C. R.)— History of the Indian Navy, 1877.
Malcolm (Colonel Sir J.) (?)— Sketches of Fersia.
Markham (C. R.)— A General Sketch of the History of Persia, 1874.
Men gin (P.).— Histoire Sommaire de VEgypte, 1839.
Morier (J. J.)— A journey through Fersia, 1812.
Morier (J. J.)— A second journey through Fersia, 1818.
Morier (J. J.)— Adventures of Hajji Babha (a recent edition with an
introduction by Hon'ble N. Curzon—now Lord Curzon).
Ousley (Sir W.)— Travels in various countries of the East, 1819.
Palgrave (W. G.)— Narrative of a year's journey through Central and
Eastern Arabia (1862-1863).
Rehatsek (E.)— History of the Wahabys in Arabia and in India
• (J. Bo. Br. R. A. S., XIV, 1878-1880).
Wellsted (Lieutenant J. R.)— Travels in Arabia, 1838.
Wellsted (Lieutenant J. R.)— Travels to the City of the Caliphs, 1848.
In Chapter XLI—B, of the Frecis, an account is given of the circum
stances under which the Imam of Maskat concluded a Treaty of alliance in
1833 with the United States of America. The account is abstracted from the
Bombay Secretariat Records.
The circumstances under which Great Britain concluded the Commercial
Treaty of 1839 and Prance its treaty of 1844, with the Imam, are not related
in either the Bombay Secretariat or the Foreign Department Records. The
Treaty of 1839 was entered into by the Foreign Office in London in direct
communication with the Imam at Zanzibar, while the Treaty of 1844 was
concluded by the Imam with France after consulting the English Foreign
Office through Her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar, not through the Indian
or Bombay Governments—(See Colonel Historical Sketch of Seyyid
Said-bin-Sultan of Maskat in the Gulf Residency Administration Report for
1887-1888.
The 26th March 1906,
J. A. SALDANHA.