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No./^of 1870. ' '

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. (
IFOItraiGISr I>33P'A.*ItTMISNT,

To
HIS GRA'OE 'THE DUKE OE ARGYLL, K.T.,
' 1 ' ller Majesty's Secretary of State for India.

Fort Willtam, . the February 1870.
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My Lord Duke,
With reference to tlio despatches noted
. From Secret nry of Stnlo, x*. in the margin, which relate to
fi, Secret, tinted April 301 li,
. ’ i 18G9. the. claims recently renewed by
■ 111,5 Pcrsian Government to sovc-
tinted Doccmbcr 2((ii, iKco. rcjgnty over.Bahrein, we have tho
honour to recapitulate the history of that island, as it is
to be gathered from the records at our disposal in tho
Foreign Department.

2. From the eleventh century to the beginning of
the sixteenth century tho inhabi-
Memorandum of Cnptnin Ho- . ,
licrl Taylor, Ar-Ulnnt J'oli- tatttS Of Bahrein, to Whom U Per-
* t • lienl Agent in Tttrkiili Arn- .
• inn, pp. 23.24 Wowtov sian and Arab descent has boon
• • . ‘ • Ar/ec/ionr, No. XXIV. , . ,
. variously assigned, appear to’havo
: been subject to Chiefs of their own, face. Previously to
.. that period the.aboriginal Sheikhs.,had not always been .
able to hold their, own against foreign aspirants to power,
... who.inyjded the island, from either side of tho Gulf,.
In; the. time, of Alphouso dc Albuquerque, Bahrein, in
. a. i>. ifioo*if»iG*.. • « common, with, other islands of the
joi.l.p.gm. • i .. .U.uU, fcllj into;the possession of tho
i US'.
l^rtijgucsc, ^hoi;:\ycro..evcntufilly, .deprived’of it by tho-
• hi.*#
•Sheikh;.9^,Ip|isa, a dependency of
Afii/rotih; Voi- T.|' T»; 629.
1 Ncjd..:,,;iti^yg8:; wrestcd from tho':
latter about tho year 1000 by Imqrii'./ICooli Khan, Go.-..;
vcrnor.of Pars, in the name; and: on bohalf of Shah AbbaV ..
• tho Great, who had long coveted- tho poarl banks adjoining .