IOR/G/29/5/1

The item is in the form of a diary (ff 3-24), which contains records of consultations at the [East India Company's] Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory. The Chief Agent, John Geekie, and the Factory Council members, including Edward Clift and William May, headed the consultations. They recorded the daily activities, the administrative decisions made, letters received and sent, as well as visits to and from the Factory.

Among the main details and issues recorded in the diary are the following:

• The trading activities of the Dutch and the French in the region
• Lists of certain commodities and their prices in Persian currencies
• Records of the activities of a certain Arab Shaikh named Rachid [Rashid], and his Arab supporters
• Records of letters received from various merchants and Persian officials
• The Dutch-Aphgoons [Afghan] dispute
• The arrival of the wool caphila [caravans] from Carmenia [Kerman]
• The death of a person named Mynheer Tlaam [?]
• The payment of customs
• The murder of the Dutch Chief by a Persian servant
• The appointment of John Horne as the new Chief of the Gombroon Factory.

The consultations also include records of visits exchanged between Factory members and Persian officials and merchants, such as Baroo Caun [Baru Khan] and Abdullah Caun [Khan]. There are also reports of ships' arrivals and departures, including the Britannia, and the Victoria Frigate. From Gombroon the ships sailed mainly to Ormuz [Hormuz, also written as Ormuse], Bombay, and Bunder Bouchier [Bushire].