'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎123] (165/733)

MUSK AT.
123
Date.
a. d . 1799
1800
1801
1803
14th Nov.
1804
Occurrences.
the mediation of the British Hesident, the usual friendly
inteicourse between the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and the Imaum is however
restored.
The Imaum, sailing with a large fleet to attack the Uttoobees,
and led ace Bahiein, seizes the only three vessels belonging
to them. 1 he X^ttoobees apply for aid to Shaikh Nassir of
Bushire, who proceeds to Bahrein, and receives the tribute
for 1798. The Irnaum, in return, by means of intrigues,
obtains possession of the island of Karrack. He amicably
adjusts matters with the Uttoobees, and the Shaikh of
Bushire, and returns to Muskat.
Colonel Malcolm, touching at Muskat on his embassy to
Persia, enters into an agreement, in confirmation of that
of 1798, with the Imaum, who was supposed to have
fa voured the intrigues of the French,
The Imaum proceeds towards Ras-ool-Khyma, where he joins
Shaikh Suggur, with a view to oppose the threatened inva
sion of Oman by the Wahabees, which is, however, averted
by the conclusion of a peace.
The Tmaum accomplishes his favourite object of reducing
Bahrein. The Uttoobees, however, retake it in a few
months.
The Wahabee influence and power having greatly in-
creased, the Imaum, unable to check its progress, accedes
to a tiuce of tluee years \vith them. The AVahabee ruler,
returning fiom his victorious career on the western frontier
of Arabia (to allow of his prosecuting which the truce had
been formed), now, in violation of the same, prepares to
attack Oman by land and sea. The conquest of the pro
vince was arrested by the murder of the Wahabee Shaikh,
Abdool Azeez, early in the month of November.
Syud Sultan is killed in an engagement with the Uttoobees,
joined by the Joasmees, off the bar of Bussora river.
Another account has it that he was killed by some Aza
Arabs (a bianch of the Joasmee Iribe), wliile going on
shore at Kishm.
The administration of affairs devolves upon his two sons, who
being young and unprotected, their pretensions are disput
ed by their uncle. Shaikh Ghes, of Sohar, who aims at the
usurpation of the government.