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Acknowledgments

I wish to thank the following people for specific and general suggestions: Paul Adamthwaite, George Billy, Jim Bradford, Elizabeth De Sombre, Paul Fontenoy, John Hattendorf, Jamie Rife, Gene Allen Smith, and Josh Smith. Bruce Dennis provided professional help in locating documents in the British National Archives. Joseph Gibbs tracked Omani records in the library of the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Thanks are also due to the anonymous peer reviewers at the journal of the North American Society of Oceanic History, Northern Mariner, for their many helpful suggestions and to the editor of the journal, Roger Sarty, for permission to reproduce the elements of chapters 2–8, 13, and 14 that previously appeared in the journal. Sarty’s encouragement and fine critiques were invaluable. Discussions with participants at North American Society of Oceanic History conferences led to refinement of my thinking and many helpful leads. I am particularly grateful to my wife, Loretta Carlisle, for her patience and support.