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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN" NAVY.
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Aden. A demand was made by Brigadier Coghlan on the
elders of the tribes for the surrender of the principal insti
gators of this unprovoked outrage, who were well known by
name, and it was enforced by a rigid blockade of their
coast, maintained by the 6 Elphinstone' and 6 Mahi, ? which
stopped the entire trade of Berbera during the seasons
of 1855-56, thus inflicting a severe punishment on the offending
tribe. The Soomali chiefs showed every disposition to com
ply with the demands made upon them, but they were unable to
do so to the full extent, as most of the offenders escaped to
other tribes, and thus were beyond their reach, and only one
man, who bore the mark of a gunshot wound on his back, was
sent to Aden a prisoner. At length Government, satisfied that
all had been done which was within the power of the tribe,
consented to the withdrawal of the blockade, upon certain con
ditions, which was embodied in a treaty, and, in November,
1856, the blockading vessel was recalled.*
On the 2nd of December, 1856, the 4 Elphinstone,' Captain
Frashard,t sailed from Bombay for Zanzibar, carrying Captains
* Captain Playfair's " History of Arabia Felix."
f Captain Frushard was enabled to render an important service to his Grovern-
ment in the year 1848, on the occasion of the first voyage of the ' Ferooz' to
Suez. The incident is worthy of record as showing the description of civil duties,
unostentatiously performed, and oftentimes unchronicled, which the officers of the
Indian Navy rendered to their own and the Home Grovernments. Captain Frushard
writes—"I had just anchored at Suez when the Vice Consul (Levick, I think, was
his name) came on board and gave me a letter from Mr. Murray, the Consul-Q-eneral
in Egypt, addressed to the Commander of any vessel of the Indian Navy arriving
at Suez, which was to the effect that Abbas Pasha, late Grovernor of Cairo, was
about to proceed on the pilgrimage to Mecca ; that he had on all occasions
evidenced his friendliness to the English, and treated foreign visitors to Cairo
with great distinction, and he, Mr. Murray, deemed it desirable that Abbas Pasha
should be conveyed to Jiddah by any vessel of the Indian Navy, if possible. The
Viee-Consul Levick also told me, as from Mr. Murray, that on the return of
Ibrahim Pasha from England, he had accused Abbas of malversation during his
governorship of Cairo, and it was probable Ibrahim on that, or some other
protest, would put Abbas ' out of the way,' and Mr. Levick added that 4 Abbas
was then in Suez.' I went on shore and called upon Abbas Pasha and offered
to convey him to Jiddah, at which he was greatly pleased, and wished to go off
at once, although I told him I was not ready, as I had to take in coal. However,
I took him on board in my gig, and lucky it was for him, for that same afternoon
a number of Ibrahim Pasha's followers arrived at Suez, and I then learnt that
Abbas Pasha had escaped from Cairo the night before. The next day a large
party of priests, beys, and followers embarked, and I proceeded to Jiddah,
leaving an official for the commander of any vessel that might arrive to take on
my mails to Bombay, if they came during my absence. Abbas and most of his
lollowers talked only Turkish Arabic; but his medical man was an Italian, who
spoke French well, and my purser, Cole,(a) was well up in Arabic, and so we got on
swimmingly. The morning after landing Abbas at Jiddah, I left for Suez. On
I a " e / no ° n of m J arrival there, Nubar Eey came from Cairo with a despatch
irom Mr. Murray, apprising me of the death of Ibrahim Pasha, and the great
importance and necessity for Abbas Pasha's return, Abbas now being Viceroy. I
immediately left again for Jiddah, taking Nubar Bey with his despatches.
{a) Mr. Cole was afterwards for many years British Consul at Jiddah.
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