'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.' [‎110] (143/612)

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garrison deserting to his side, the faithful Beloochees falling
back upon Muskat. A delay of four days on the part of
Turky, whose Bedawy followers were intent on ransacking el-
Matrah, gave Salim time to collect reinforcements, so that
when the enemy appeared before the walls of the town they
encountered an unexpected resistance, and on the (3th of
September retired to el-Mati'ah with about five hundred
followers, from whence they might easily have been dis
lodged had Salim possessed the courage to attempt it. Three
days later. Colonel Pelly reached el-Matrah, and invited
Turky to a conference, either in person or through a repre
sentative. The excuses which he made not being deemed
satisfactory, her Majesty's frigate Octavia was piloted into
the roads by the small steamer May Frere, but before the
vessels could anchor an envoy from the Seyyid Turky ap
peared on board the steamer, charged to state that his master
renounced all demand for territory, and would be satisfied
with a pension equivalent to the combined revenues of el-
Matrah and Sohar. An agreement was eventually concluded
whereby it was stipulated that Turky should receive from
the Seyyid Salim an annual stipend of seven thousand two
hundred dollars, and reside in future within the territories of
British India, under the supervision of our Government.
Thereupon el-Matrah was surrendered to Salim, and his uncle
Turky embarked for Bombay on the 11th of September,
1867, where we must leave him for the present.
No sooner, however, had the ruling Seyyid escaped this
danger than he was involved in another, springing from the
same fertile source—the absence of any recognized order of
succession to the sovereignty over 'Oman. His kinsman,
the Seyyid Hamed-bin-Salim, 1 who held the appanage of
el-Masnaah, 2 which had been conferred upon him by his
1 11 dmed-bin-Salim, was the cousin to Thuwainy, the Seyyid Salim s
father. See Appendix D.
2 For the situation of this place, see note, p. 112.