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SLAVE TRADE. 659
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Article III.
As the selling of males and females, whether grown up or young,
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who are “I-Ioor,” or free, is contrary to the Mahomedan religion, and s
whereas the Somalees are included in the “Hoor,” or free, I do hereby
agree that the sale of males and females, whether young or old, of the
Somalcc Tribe, shall be considered as piracy, and that four months from
this date, all those of my people convicted of being concerned in such
an act shall be punished as pirates.
Dated 10Ih Shuival 1255 a. n. (corresponding with the lltli December
1839 a. d.).
Seal of His
Highness the
Imauin of
Muskat.

(True translation)
(Signed) S. Hennell,
Resident, Persian Gulf.

Memorandum.— Under dale the 18111 August 1845, His Highness the
Imaum of Muskat addressed the following letter to Captain Hamerton,
relative to an omission which had been discovered to exist in Article
IV* of the Arabic version of the Treaty concluded by His Highness with
Captain Moresby in September 1822.
A. C.
Your excellent letter has reached, and your friend understood its
contents. You say that you have received a letter from the mighty
Government, containing orders to you to bring to our notice that in
Article IV. of the Treaty we concluded with Captain Moresby in the
year 1822, it is mentioned in the English version that it is incumbent
on us, and our heirs and governors, to assist in apprehending English
subjects engaged in the Slave Trade, but that such is not mentioned in
the Arabic version (translation) of the Treaty. My friend, not
considering it necessary to alter the Treaty, nevertheless we consi­
der it is incumbent on us, our heirs, and governors, that we should
assist to apprehend English subjects who may be engaged in the
Slave Trade.
Therefore, whoever shall be accredited from the Government, and

* Vide page 655 of this Selection.