'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎504] (546/733)

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Coast. It was clearly, therefore, fear and apprehension alone that drove
these chiefs to unite, and grow, as it were, into one, for much jealousy
, had been of late displayed by either. They combined, however and
strove in union well together.
The two chiefs were shortly joined by the Shaikh of Ejman, and when
the Wahabee forces had been defeated, and the Beniyas had reached
the zenith of his power, the three chiefs espoused the cause of the
fallen Syud bin Mootluk, and repaired to Brymee, for the purpose of
ejecting therefrom Shaikh Syud bin Tahnoon.
A number of skirmishes followed, in the immediate vicinity of the
a. d. 1849. forts; but owing to the arrival of a mediator in
February 1849, and the acceptance of peace by
the belligerent parties, the whole of the chiefs returned to their seat/
and hostilities ceased. '
Shaikh Muktoom still kept up a friendly intercourse with the Joas-
mees; and both chiefs, especially the former, strongly advised Ameer
ysul in November 1849 to rebuild the town and fort of Adeed
and to replace therein the people of the Gubeysat Tribe. Their intrigues'
not r d r ,he desired effect: the ,ribe in
and f 'i , Unng ' h 7 bsence of Syud bin Tahnoon at Shinas
and Muskat, to secede from Aboothabe,* and repair to the Gnttur Coast,
snres Th 80 InCenSecl the Beni y as Chief that he resorted to mea-
he greatest severity to bring the offenders to pnnishment —
—s untempered with merey or honesty, that eventnally reduc'ed
To rX Z reS0Ur r S 0f lhe ,ribe ,0 a Sta,e bOTderi »g nothingness.
Bryme and by ,he Chief in ' he
^ f', ™ f c omplicalions, will not detain us long.
strivt'j 1 ' "f t00m r rdially hatetl the Beniyas Chief, and was ever
moned th C a , Ce f!I! weaken hls power; and when the Joasmee sum-
rf the ChW 7* f ,ri u beS t0 nni,e Wi,h P'oceed to the aid
delre h! tf ' "r S W0Uld hare tem P ted tbe ShaiI ' h
Sha kh Sv,?; 61 ' 0ne 0fthe lea S Ue ' had he not though, anattaek upon
This /„H r 8 S r e ,0 be made dUrin g the cours e of operations.
i is a one, piompted him to equip a body of troops, and
a. d. 1850. re P air to Zei t, to meet the rest of the chiefs; but
interest nf n™ l, . , ■ he foUnd 8haik h Sulta n caring for the
direction of Zin h h 7 self '- w hen he saw him bent on a move in the
followed as fir-i til'- 16 W j S ^ lon S er eager for strife : he reluctantly
to his seat at Debaye!""' a ' 1C, alter the reduction of that place, returned
Early in the ensuing y ear we gather) ftora the tenor of a con _
a. d. 1861. !® rS , aUOn held by the Resident with Shaikh
Muktoom bin Butye on the 30th January, that