'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎529] (571/733)

KHOR HASSAN. 529
to the political authority a letter which he stated had been addressed
o him in common with the other Arabian Chiefs, by the late Shaikh,
befo . re the '"""^tion of his mortal career. The purport of this
—nicat'on was to set forth that the most positive orders had been
sent out to India from the King of England, directing the authorities in
that country to withdraw themselves from any further control or super-
intendence over the Arabs ; and he therefore invited him (Saltan to
p lit is subjects to puisue their old occupation of appropriating to
themselves the property of others. I, is needless to add the whole was
a gross fabrication on the part of Eahmah, which would probably have
never been brought to our notice but for his death
From this period until 1830, Busheer bin Rahmah continued to reside
a. d. 1830. in muskat j Without any material alteration in his
situation.
In 1831, His Highness the Imaum endeavoured to procure his re-
a. d. 1831. establishment in Demaum through the influence
of the ^ aIiabee Chief, but the timely submission
of the Uttoobee Shaikh to Tocrkey bin Abdoolla oos Saood prevented
this arrangement taking place. His Highness, however, succeeded at
last m obtaining permission for Shaikh Busheer to erect a fort on Dareen
(ap ace on Tiihoot, opposite Kateef, which becomes an island at high-
water). ^ To this place he has now removed his family, and as he has
been joined by a great many of the Aboosemate Tribe, who are still
itter enemies of the Uttoobees, there is every reason to apprehend that
the re-estabhshment of this unprincipled character in these quarte^will
eventually lead to a renewal of the disputes and disturbances which
interrupted the tranquillity of the Gulf during the latter part of his
father's lifetime.