'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎124] (166/733)

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MUSK AT.
Date.
a. d, 1804
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Occurrences.
The management of affairs is entrusted by the two sons to
Syud Beder, their cousin, who, with the Wahabee Chiefs
assistance, defeats Ghes.
Syud Beder recovers Bunder Abbas and Ormus, of which
places the Shaikh of Kishm, availing himself of the troubles
that had ensued on the death of the late Imaum, had pos
sessed himself.
Syud Saeed, the second son of the late Imaum, who had now
succeeded Syud Beder, defeats an expedition against
Mukran by the Joasmee pirates.
An attack by the Imaum against Khore Fukaun fails, in
consequence of the treacherous desertion of an auxiliary
Chief of the Fajarah Tribe. The Imaum narrowly escapes
to his ship, and Syud Ghes loses his life in the aftray, and
is succeeded by his son Azan.
The W ahabees establish their influence at Muskat, and
commence to propagate by violence the tenets of their
particular sect. Some instances of oppression on their
part, indeed the common danger, reunited the Shaikhs
of Oman, who determine on a vigorous resistance to
Saood.
An expedition was despatched by the British Government,
for the protection of Muskat against the Wahabees, in
order that a well disposed ally might not be converted into
a dangerous enemy, through their influence and compul
sion; and for the suppression of the Joasmee pirates
(Vide Joasmees.)
The Imaum's brother sails on an expedition against Bahrein
and Zobara. The latter is taken, plundered, and levelled
with the ground. The troops and battering train are landed
on the former, where the brother of the governor, and the
Duryah Begee of the Wahabee fleet, with fifteen of their
principal officers, are made prisoners.
An expedition by the Imaum against Ras-ool-Khyma, for the
puipose of reinstating Sultan bin Suggur, fails.
A second expedition had started, when the chiefs and
inhabitants send a mediator to him, to solicit peace, which
the Imaum grants, and returns to the island of Ormus.
Ihe Imaum's fleet is beaten oft by the Joasmee fleet, and his
fiigate, the Caroline, nearly taken. He returns to Muskat,