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111. The Eorabay Government approved of Colonel Polly’s action in
referring tho parties to the Political Agent at Maskat (No. 1403, dated 6th
May 1863).
112. We might here revert to the fact that in 1860 Captain Folix Jones
surrendered one of the culprits, a native of Khussab, concerned in the piracy
case, referred to in Chapter VI (1) above to the 8ultan of Maskat, on the
ground that he was a subject of the Sultan.
113. In his report • (letter No. 67, dated 13th April 1863), Colonel Pelly,
in classifying the several jurisdictions in
•Printed in 1874 in the Foreign Department the Persian Gulf described the following
Prm> territory as “ directly under the Sultan
of Maikat —
“The Musseodum Promontory, inolusive of Khoomzar and Khussab. The frontier
between Maskat and Ras-el-Kbyma territory is near where the plain and mountains meet at
Shaam.'1

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