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and vacate, and ordered the despatch of a special messenger to Bandar Abbas mth
“ Your telegram of fourth. Viceroy con- written instructions. My telegram of the 4tl
siders the settlement of the Bandar Abbas embodied these proceedings and T fi
lease question satisfactory.” i.nnm-n- ^ . Iiaa the
. . honom to recene from the Foreign Secretarv
a reply as per margin. oicury
13. On the evening of the same day I received from Mr. Alison a telegram informiim
me that the Home Minister had stated that orders had been issued to the Prince Gnver
nor to 'conclude.
14. On the evening of the day following (5th), I took my leave of the Prince, accom
panied by the Maskat Minister aiid by the English gentlemen resident at Shiraz.' Prince
then renewed his assurances of his satisfaction at the prompt and satisfactory termina
tion of the Bandar Abbas difficulty, and requested me to inform the Sultan of Maskat
by telegram. He added that he considered the terms in all respects fair, and that it
was on all accounts desirable that the lease should have leased.
15. No allusion was made throughout the discussions to the subject of Angaum.
16. As regards the proposed creation by Persia of a flotilla in the Persian Gulf the
Innce said he entirely concurred with me in thinking it would prove an unnecessary
expense and a costly failure. He said Persia entrusted the peace of the Gulf entirely to the
British Resident, and that he would be prepared to issue any orders I might draft in
view to my securing full support and prompt communication from the local Governors
along the Persian coast line.
17 On taking leave of the Prince he begged me to accept an ornamented kalian
(pipe) headpiece made after a device of his own, adding that he was causing a mouthpiece
to be made for me of the same pattern. He said that he trusted I would keep and use
Ibcse as mementos of our pleasant intercourse during my visits to Shiraz. His Royal
J lg ness ple ^ ed t° pay some other personal compliments, with which it seems un
necessary to trouble Government. I replied that, under the rules of the India Office
it would be necessary for me to intimate the gift to the Government of India, and that'
if they should permit, it would afford me gratification to keep and use a kalian presented
to me m so flattering a manner by the Hissam-Sultaneh.
43« The territory, which is the subject of the bargain,
comprises "the Government of Bandar Abbas, the islands of
Kishm and Hormuz, the districts of Tureen, Tazian, Shumal,
Minab, and Birjaban, and the port of Khumeer, and all their
dependencies. ^ Such is the wording in the Agreement on the
part of Saiyid Salim. In the document which intimates the
release on the part of the Shah, the territory made oyer
is less clearly defined) thus "Bandar Abbas with its islands,
the districts of Yureen, Tazian, Shumal, Minal, and Birjaban,
and the port of Khumeer." nothing is said in either paper
\\ about Angaum.
c , . , ~ WJ - y u ' jc b ine grant of Bandar Abbas, Kishm and other places,
^ ac e , oa \ I” [f v P ur Saiyid Salim and Iris heirs. When Azan bin Ginas
tbn ou Smyi-d Salim, the lease ceased, as he was only a collateral relation of
nn- + A tt \ i 1( l ^ 5ers ^ ai1 Government taking advantage of this fact, ap-
ai p Ahmed, once a Minister of Saiyid Salim, to the charge of Bandar
Tii ‘h ^ is dependencies with the view of forwarding its own enterests.
f ll( Government on hearing of this, instructed the Resident not to take
MWkc'P 8 11 ! 1 tlie ma Ger till it should be clear who should eventually be ruler of
A Khn c< ’i 98 10 reasons Mill existed which had induced it to desire that Bandar
riosntfl v V 3 ®, attac \ ed to that principality. The Secretary of State in his
no Sal™ x 0 ' /’ dated July 1869, whilst admitting that Azan bin Ghias had
monf rU‘ T W a- a e T er a con tinnance of the lease, did not desire that the Govern
ment oi India should trouble itself with the matter.
Proposed renewal of the lease during the reign of Saiyid Turki, 1871-72.
Turki came to power, he applied for Colonel Felly’s
Pellv n«k^ n +f rran ^ in ^ ^ 0r ^ le l ease the Bandar Abbas districts. Colonel
Mav 1871 f + ! e W® tr nctions of Government. In a despatch No. 30 of 23rd
’ 0 le ® ecre tary of State, the Government of India wrote :—
x- i e r) J i ea ‘ Sfi °f Bandar Abbas, we have .to remind Your Grace that in our
" a c i . o. 1, dated 27th May 1870, we solicited the instructions of JRt'