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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
Brymee, a place on the frontiers of his Highness's territories,
two cruisers were sent to the pearl banks, and succeeded in
preventing the war from degenerating into indiscriminate
plunder. In the following August, in consequence of an act of
piracy on a Bahrein vessel, by some Shargah war dhows, the
Commodore sailed to that port with his squadron, and made a
demand for full compensation for the life and property sacri
ficed, threatening immediate hostilities in the event of non
compliance. This decisive course of action brought Sultan bin
Suggur 46 to his bearings," and he lost no time in affording
redress to the Bahrein chief, Sheikh Abdoolla, who, in a letter
to the British Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , expressed himself amply
satisfied. " The successful termination of this business," says
Lieutenant Hennell, then Assistant Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , "created
a sensation throughout the Gulf highly creditable to our
Government " In the following year the Bahrein chief came
to an open rupture with Sheikh Rahmah bin Jaubir, (the noto
rious old pirate chief of Khor Hassan, whose fort at Demaun, a
small island close to Kateef, had been destroyed in 1816 by
the Uttoobees), but two of the Company's vessels of war sta
tioned off Demaun for the protection of the trade of Kateef
from Rahmah, prevented the two chiefs from carrying on
regular hostilities until their withdrawal, agreeably to orders
from the Bombay Government. The two chiefs then engaged
in war until the end of 1826, when Sheikh Rabmah, seeing
defeat inevitable in an action in which his vessel was engaged
with a superior force, terminated his life and his guilty career
by blowing up his ship together with himself and all his
crew.
In 1832 most daring outrages were committed by the people
of Rashid bin Humeed, Sheikh of Ejman, upon the commerce
of Muscat, and an application being made to Sultan bin Suggur
for redress, the latter disowned all responsibility, as he exercised
no authority over the Ejman chief. Upon this the Company s
cruisers 6 Ternate' and 4 Tigris' proceeded to that port and
demanded the restitution of the captured vessels and property
within twenty-four hours. " Entire compliance," we are told,
" was yielded, and, after some little delay and hesitation, the
boats, money, and jewels, the property of the passengers, were
yielded up." Again, in November of the same year, when a
large fleet of Joasmi vessels of war, containing fifteen huudrea
men, under command of Sultan bin Suggur, appeared at the
head of the Gulf, in order to assist Sheikh Nassir, the here
ditary Governor of Bushire, who had been ejected from the
town by the Persian authorities, the Resident only succeede
in preventing a blockade of the port, which would have cause
great distress to the inhabitants, by appealing to the om
modore of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. squadron. Ihis was a mo t o