'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.' [‎93] (126/612)

and analysis.
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Thoweynee in every Lour of difficulty, and the boundaries of
the dominions of either remained as before." 1 According to
an official report drawn up by Captain, now Sir Arnold,
Kemball, in 1854, an additional sum of 8,000 crowns was to
be paid by the Seyyid Said on account of Sohftr, which had
reverted to him through his arrangement with Kais-bin-
'Azzan, as already stated.
The severe blow inflicted on the ^Omany state by these
humiliating terms exacted by the Wahhabis was aggravated
by a fresh disaster which necessitated the immediate return
of the Seyyid Said to Mdskat. Towards the end of 1854 the
Persians expelled Seif-bin-Nebhan and the Seyyid's officials
and garrisons generally from Bunder-el- , Abbas and other
fortified posts on the coast of Kerman, occupied them in force,
and committed great outrages upon the inhabitants. The
sovereigns of 'Oman had farmed those places from the Go
vernment of the Shah for an annual sum of 6,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. ,
and having held the concession for nearly a century they con
sidered themselves feoffees in perpetuity, and, subject to the
payment of the stipulated rental, wholly irresponsible to the
Persian authorities. The new port of Gombroon, on the
mainland, since named cf Bunder-el-'Abbas v in honour of its
founder, was the most important station comprised in the
farm, for thither the Shah-Abbas had removed the commerce
of Hormuz, after his expulsion of the Portuguese from that
island in 1622, aided by a British force belonging to the East
India Company. In 1798 the feof was held by the Seyyid
Sultan-bin-Ahmed, the then ruling sovereign of 'Oman, who
apparent!}', without any reference to Persia, entered into a
treaty with the British, 2 in the 7th article of which he grants
them the following extraordinary privileges:— <f In the port of
Bunder Abbas (Gombroon), whenever the English shall be dis-
1 Precis, pp. 12, 13.
2 Dated 12th October, 1798. Sec Bombay Government Selections,
No. xxiv, p. 218-9.