Letter no.18 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the relations between Shaikh Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Muḥammad bin Khalīfah] of Bahrain, and the Wahabee [Wahhābī] chief Ameer Fysul [Fayṣal ibn Turki Āl Sa‘ūd]. In his Kemball letter states that Shaikh Muḥammad has asked that he be allowed to act against Fay...
Letter no.248 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter is an covering letter, enclosing a report from the British Agent at Bahrain. The report (folios 47-48), written by the Bahrain Native Agent Hajee Jassim [Hajjī Jāsim] to Kemball, dated 8 April 1855, discusses an expedition by a relative of the chief of Koweit [Kuwait], against members...
Letter no.393 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to hostilities between Bahrain and the Al bin Ali tribe based at Demaum [Dammām], having migrated from the island of Geis or Kenn [Kīsh]. Jones writes that, in light of the maritime hostilities, the only course open to him was to insist that the Al bin Ali tr...
Letter no.464 of 1855 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to relations between Bahrain, Damaum [Dammām], and the Al bin Ali tribe, based at Dammām, and is a continuation of negotiations discussed by Jones in an earlier letter (folios 51-52). Jones writes that he now considers the Shaikh of Dammām to be the real inst...
Letter no.54 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosure relates to the Resident’s response to acts of piracy (including the plunder of indigo from the British vessel Centaur) by the subjects of the chief of Jaalan. Kemball writes that has written a letter to Mahomed bin Ali Beni Boo Ali, chief of Jaalan (copy, dated 5 Febr...
Letter no.217 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter is a covering letter, relating to previous correspondence sent to the chief of Jaalan, in relation to acts of piracy alleged to have been committed by his subjects. Enclosed with Kemball’s letter is the translation of a letter (folio 86) from Shaikh Mahomed bin Alee [Muḥammad bin Ali],...
Letter no.243 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to hostilities taking place around Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi], the efforts of representatives from the Persian Gulf Naval Squadron to locate the perpetrators of the acts of piracy involved, and the deposition of the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, Sa’id bin Tahnoon, and his...
Letter no.259 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosure relates to the deposition of Shaikh Saeed bin Tahnoon [Sa’id bin Tahnun] of Abu Dhabi. The enclosure is a letter (folio 112) addressed to Kemball from the British Agent at Muscat, Khoja [or Khojeh] Hiskale, dated 14 July 1855. Hiskale’s letter reports on the circumsta...
Letter no.265 of 1855 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to an incident in which a vessel despatched from the Honourable Company’s steam frigate Queen to Debai [Dubai], upon its return to the Queen from the town, was pelted with stones by forty men from the shore. The following enclosures are included with Kemball’...
Letter no.2812 of 1855 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter and its enclosure relate to the incident in 1854 of the shipwreck and plunder by the Beni Boo Ali [Banī Bū ‘Alī] tribe, of a bugla [buggalow, or boat] off the Oman coast at Rasel Hudd [Ra’s al Ḥadd]. Enclosed with Anderson’s letter is letter no. 9 of 1855 from Major Atkins Hamerton, He...
