"ملف 59/15 B (A 14) مسقط: تجارة الرقيق تحت مظلة العلم الفرنسي" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٧] (٣١٠/٢٢٦)

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PERSIA AND ARABIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[August 1.]
Section 1.
No. 1.
Admiralty to Foreign Office.~{Received Auqutt 1.)
(Confidential.)
Adifiiroilty July 29 IDO 1 ^
I AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to forward to
you lierevutn, to he laid before the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, an extract
from a letter dated the 30th ultimo, from the Officer Commanding His Majesty's ship
" Amphitnte," reporting his proceedings in the Persian Gulf.
I am, &c.
(Signed) H. J. VAN SITTART NEALE.
Inclosure in No. 1.
.. Captain Windham to Admiralty.
(Confidential.)
(Extiact.) Amphitrite " at Bombay, June SO, 1902.
n 1 i.,. h tlie , honour to inform you that on the 1st June I arrived at Aden.
Copy ox sailing orders inclosed.
nr • 0l ^ a 5 ri T? 1 th0re 1 . foun(1 a telegram from the Political Resident at Muscat,
Major 1 . Z. Cox, requesting me to show flag at " Dhofar."
After landing hospital cases, I left Aden the 2nd June and anchored in Has
Keisut imy the evening of the 4th, using the electric light that evening.
Ihe next morning weighed and coasted along the Dhofar coast.
f 1(, fai is the south-west boundary of the Sultan of Muscat's dominions, and it is
larmed out by the Sultan to the Governor of Dhofar, to whom it is worth 20,000 dollars
a-year.
Anchoring one evening off one of the Koarya Moorya and the next off Ras
ana la, to carry out hoats firing, &c., and at the same time to rest the stokers (a
very young lot), the weather being very hot.
I arrived in Muscat Harbour on the 8th, and secured the stern of ship to
rmnacle Hock in the harbour to get broadside on to the ni^ht breeze blowino-. The
snip thus lay within a quarter of a mile of the Sultan's ~ Palace. I saluted with
twenty-one guns before entering harbour.
On Tuesday the 9th June, in company with the Political Resident, I visited the
sultan, and the next day His Highness with his son and brother and a numerous
suite returned the visit After they had gone over the ship, I weighed and went
rn practice, the firing was good and evidently created an impression,
iiie oultan expressed himself highly pleased with the trip.
The ship was thrown open to the public during the time she was at Muscat
and numbers of the inhabitants came on board.
pisembarking the Sultan on afternoon of the 10th, I proceeded with Maior Cox,
the Political Resident at Muscat, on board to Sur.
Major Cox had previously informed me that the Government of India were
desirous that if practicable, I should show the flag at Bushire, Koweit, and Bahrein,
a er leaving Bunder Abbas. I intended to have telegraphed this information on
reaching that port, but found on arrival there, there was no telegraph, so I had to wait
till 1 arrived at Bushire, when I immediately telegraphed.
. 1 anchored off Sur, the chief port of the Omar Coast and well-known
o J Lls Majesty s Government, as the principal emporium; of the Slave Traffic in these
parts, and also m connection with the French flag question.
ihe Political Resident landed and interviewed Sheikhs, and British Indian
traders, of whom there are about thirty in the place, and he obtained some interestino-
intormation m connection with an incident which is reported to have occurred a few
weeks ago on the African Coast near Mozambique: where a Portuguese man-of-war
is said to have captured a number of Arab slave dhows and rescued some 700 slaves.
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