Letter from Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, Currently at Kazroon [Kāzerūn], to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay
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Letter covers the following subjects: the settlement of William Smith's claim against Ahmed Iben Seyf, the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat's expedition to restore Sultan Sugger [Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī] to the Government of Rasil Khima [Ra's al-Khaymah], and Captain David Seton's treaty of 1806.
Letter from Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to James Farish, Secretary to the Government, Bombay
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Letter acknowledges instructions to provide an annual supply of native sulphur for the use of the Madras Government. William Bruce reports that the working of the mines in the Dashtee [Dashti] district has been interrupted by conflict in that region. He goes on to state that a supply of sulphur i...
Letter from Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to William Newnham, Secretary to the Government, Bombay
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Letter concerns Government commands for documents relating to the former Marine Agent, Stephen Watson Henshaw, including an account current covering the period of his employment, and an account current for a consignment of arrack. William Bruce reports that he has called on Henshaw to draw up the...