'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎117] (159/733)

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brymee.
1 • j i •' Va The length of the fort, inside,
and the whole built of ^"J 1 ^ si "° y " one paces, and the breadth sixty
Captain Hamerton ou hundred paces distant, is another and
On the north side, about 1 h and fifty in breadth, the
smaller fort, about thirty-five P a ° e * In time 0 f emergeney
wall about fifteen feet high, an ^ ^ but under two
Brymee could ™ uster ab ° l terms with each other. The fort might
chiefs, not always on the b . . Unet i Arabs , with their match-
offer an effectual icsistance . • that ft could not for an hour
locks, but Captain Hamerton is of opinion Uia
withstand the attack of discipline however; a re only a branch
The Arabs who hold the foils y ' t and goes unc ier the
of a tribe which occupies tie a ^ „ ee . ' but (fie person who is
general appellation of t e ae ®™. deg at a p ) ace oa lled Zuneh, about
considered the pnncipa c i andi if all united under him,
eighteen raile \ tne n ; but'thcre are at least four chiefs, who
might number 3,6 g^ .° d dent autliority, whose submission to
pretend more or b viewed as in some measure voluntary, and
the Chief of Zuneh must weakened by the jealousies
whose united power ls S "J ^ s rin „ u p among them.
and misunderstandings p to be derived from ts
The 'rir reef easfty /eared, and brought to great perfection by
groves of date , _ Y ^ wh . ch . t stands Ie ceive S of water
the plentiful supply 1 adiao ent hills. It is not known by
drawn by aqueducts 10 ' 11 „ r p constructed, but the Natives assign
whom these valuable condui s ™ possibly Suleiman the Magnifi-
So".™ Persians, .1.
"Smm, r
province of Oman. Wheat gl °^ ult . vated> Fruitj sulc h as oranges and
but does not appear to be mu nome ^ranates, grow in great
lemons, -n^ the hill Hafeet, but
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been abandoned. ^ been ascertained, was built by the
The fort o Br y" e ®' h had established their authority ou the
Wahabees, who, shortly at ^ . on of the ten ets of their creed,
^payml'rthe Zukat or the fifth of all property. They are