IOR/F/4/2416/130530

This item consists of copies of correspondence and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the twenty-fifth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant James Tronson, commanding HC brig Euphrates.

The item concerns relations between Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and Debaye [Dubai, also rendered as Debai in the text]. It includes:

• The case of an attack by a group from Debaye on two boats from Aboothabee, resulting in the seizure of four enslaved people [also referred to as ‘seedies’ [Sīdīs]] and several items from the boats. Hennell sends the Euphrates to Debaye to demand the restitution of the items and enslaved people
• The efforts of Sheik Saeed ben Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān] of Aboothabee and Sheik Mukhtoom [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah] of Debaye to restore peaceful relations.

The item contains a table of contents (f 670), and the title page (f 669) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 25’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.