"تاريخ أئمة وأسياد عُمان بقلم سليل ابن رزيق، من ٦٦١-١٨٥٦ م، مترجم من الأصل العربي، ومُحرّر بملاحظات وملاحق ومقدمة تواصل التاريخ حتى سنة ١٨٧٠، بقلم جورج بيرسي بادجر، عضو في الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية والقس الراحل في رئاسة بومباي." [‎٤‎٣] (٦١٢/٧٦)

and analysis.
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complished the mission entrusted to him, but being wrecked
off Sohar on the way back, Ahmed obtained possession of
the Shah's letter, taking advantage of which he forthwith
dispatched one of his officers to Mdskat with the letter and
four hundred men, and instructed him to take over the
fortifications from the Persians. The latter believing that
he was acting for Majid delivered up all the fortresses into
his hands, which he immediately garrisoned with his own
men.
Ahmed's next manoeuvre casts an indelible stigma on his
memory, and can only be palliated on the ground that
treachery was practically recognized as justifiable strategy
by both parties, and that the atrocities of the invaders richly
deserved the retribution which was meted out to them. The
Persians were invited to Barkah, where great preparations
were made to entertain them prior to their final departure.
The people's goods and chattels were placed under contri
bution to provide for the feast, and seething caldrons of
meat and dishes of sweetmeats were borne to the unwelcome
guests amidst murmurs of indignation uttered by the ^Orna-
nis against Ahmed for his hospitality to the hated foreigners,
who in their opinion deserved a very different treatment.
While the rank and file were being regaled in their tents,
fifty of the principal officers, by special invitation, sat down
to a grand banquet with Ahmed in the fort. While so en
gaged the public crier proclaimed: " Any one who has a
grudge against the Persians may now take his revenge \"
The result, as might have been expected, was an indiscri
minate slaughter of the hapless Persians, until Ahmed in
terposed to arrest it; but those who escaped were reserved
for a still more terrible fate. They were embarked in ships,
professedly to be conveyed to Bunder-el-'Abbas, but the
sailors—acting there can be little doubt on superior instruc
tions—set fire to the ships not far from Barkah, escaping to
laud themselves, leaving the wretched Persians to be burnt