'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.' [‎109] (142/612)

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Turky's advance. At the instance of the el-Harth, six chiefs
were dispatched to negotiate a peace with Salim, on condi
tion of his ceding to Turky the principality of Sohar. Salim
peremptorily refused the request, but offered to compromise
matters by allowing Tftrky a monthly salary of two hundred
dollars and a residence at Mdskat. The envoys, either
through fickleness or treachery—it seems tolerably certain
that Salim had been busy all along in buying off many of
Turky's principal adherents—affected to be satisfied with
this proposal, and but for a false rumour having got abroad
that the Seyyid Salim had been carried off to Bombay in a
British man-of-war, there is reason to believe that all Turky's
followers would have abandoned him. Encouraged by the
prospect of certain success, a considerable number of the
levies rejoined Turky and marched with him to Badbad,
about thirty miles from Maskat, where they arrived on the
27th of August. Salim now began to prepare for a defence,
but so great was the panic in the town that many of the
more wealthy Arabs and Khojas removed with their families
and household goods on board the shipping in the harbour.
At this juncture, orders were received from the Government
of India that the Seyyid Turky was to be threatened with
bombardment and non-recognition, in the event of his per
sisting in his designs. This menace was communicated to
Turky just as he was on the point of attacking el-Matrah,
and it so far influenced him that he sent another embassy to
Salim demanding the district of Sohar. Salim, who appears
to have been partially demented by anxiety and fear, would
neither listen to the proposal nor offer any terms of his own.
Turky, on the other hand, hearing of the dismay which pre
vailed at Maskat, determined to extort harder conditions,
and now demanded the entire principality, with the excep
tion of Mdskat and el-Matrah. Salinas supineness and
vacillation eventually emboldened his rival to attack the latter
place, which he succeeded in capturing, the Arabs of the