Narrative of a Voyage Round The World, during the years 1835, 36, and 37;

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first american-arabian trade agreement The preferred edition of this account of Edmund Roberts' second mission to South East Asia by way of Arabia, including several important chapters on Oman, Zanzibar, and Muscat describing Said bin Sultan (1781-1856) and his court. With four added plates not present in the American edition of the same year. Apointed by President Andrew Jackson, Edmund Roberts (1784-1836) served as the US's first envoy to the Far East. He first met Said bin Sultan however in 1828 on a private trade voyage, who had expressed his wish to counterbalance the growing British interest in the area with an American trade agreement. Roberts returned in an official capacity in 1833 to negotiate terms, and again in 1835 to ratify and sign the treaty (reproduced in this work in full). By their third meeting the pair were on friendly terms and Ruschenberger (Roberts's surgeon) recounts the friendly exchange between the two. This was the first trade agreement made between an American and Arabian country, and paved the way for the first Arabian ship, Al-Sultanah, to land on American shores in 1840. By the time Said bin Sultan took the throne in 1804 the Omani Empire stretched across the coasts of Tanzania, Kenya, and Somalia, from Mogadishu and Mombasa to Zanzibar. Ruschenberger provides a lengthy chapter on the geography, culture, economy, and peoples of Zanzibar and Muscat, including notable figures such as Hassan bin Ibrahim, Captain of the Sultan's formidable Navy, wh

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