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Ktrlm Khao'a wo could not at present accept Oarera Caun’s proposals for stationing a vessell
proposal* lor
stationing ooo or or two constantly iu the Gulph yot if lio (the Resident) at any timo thought
two ▼Mioia in tbe it material for our Hon’ble Masters interest to assist him with one occasion­
Qnlf.
ally we permitted thereof, provided it did not interfere with any sorvioe the
Company might have for them but forbid the London being dotainod upon
this or any other occasion longer than was absolutely necessary to land her
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co goods. That as Buahiro was now an established Residency the Table was
Wl
B; no longer to be kept at the Hon’blo Companys expense but he was to bo
fo
Bi allowed 160 Rupees per month Diet Money aud 30 Rs. per month servants
tio
Th« uJJeoJn|dheothcr wages and permitted to keep two horses for himself and Assistant who was to
Buibiw Knidency. upon the same footing as tho Agent and ho was to acquaint us what allow-
anoo he thought was reasonable for the Linguist. Wo enclosed him copy of a
paragraph of our Hon’ble Masters Commands to which wo enjoined strict
obedience.

CXLVII.
Basrah Factoiy Diary No. 2—194 of 1764-95, 26th March 1786.
At a Consultation Present:
The Right W. Peter Elwin Wrench, Esq.
M^ Dymokb Lyster.
Pi£T°D,Mwder of This mee^nS hald purposely to take into consideration the purport of a
I the Commander of Letter justrece’d by Boat Express from Busbire giving the melancholy account
of the Murder of Captn.r Sutherland and his Officers suppos’d to be perpetrated
by the Arabs taken from hence whereon we have come to this determination ;
That as there was on Board the Vessell to a great ami. of English property
that the Tartar be dispatch’d as allready determined to Busbire and that tbe
Resid K be directed in case his information regarding the place be such as
gives any hopes of recovering the Money 'from the Shaik who has plunder’d
the Murder&s without endangering the Company’s Vessell or property whioh
he is well to consider of, and whioh by his Situation he must be a moro Com­
petent Judge than Us to Urder her to proceed to that place, and as it is neces­
sary a Company’s Servant shou’d be employ’d on this Occasion ; Agreed that
Mjl Hollamby proceed on the Tartar to Bushire where on his arrival if the
Resid-L deems the affair feasable he is to comply with the Instructions we now
give him and to prooeed thither accordingly but if on the contrary to return
hither by the first opportunity front Bushire.
P. E. WRENCH.
Adjourn’d.
To
The RJL WJL Peteb Elwin Whenoh, EeqJL,
Agent SfcJL Council,
Battora.
RJL W.° 8ir & Sirs,
This is purposely to advise your W-£- Ac^- that this Day arriv’d here
from Oongoon a 8ervant, a Helmsman and Lascars late belonging to CaptA
Sutherland of the Islamabad, who give the following relation. That the
Islamabad having proceeded from this place down the Gulph, encountred near
the Island of Kishme a very violent S: E: Wind, in which the Ship lo9t two
anohors and was very near perishing that after .this OaptA- Sutherland bore

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