text:  28) by the Governor of Bombay and transmitted to the Governor-general at Calcutta in which after stating that "the establishment of a monthly communication by steam with the Red Sea and the formation of a flotilla of armed steamers renders it _absolutely necessary_ that we should have a station of our own on the coast of Arabia as we already have on the Persian Gulf" --alluding to the seizure of the island of Karrack--and noticing "the insult which has been offered to the British flag by the Sultan of Aden " requests permission "to take possession of Cape Aden