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HISTOKY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
Sheikhs, had seceded from Abu Thubi after the events of 1834,
and established what is called the Boo Felasa branch of the
Beni Yas. Muktoom-bin-Butye, the young Debaye chief, who
succeeded to power in 1836, having permitted his people to
commit acts of piracy, and refused redress to the demands of
the Resident, Commodore Brucks opened fire upon his town with
shell from the 8-inch guns of the 6 Sesostris,' when he was
quickly induced to pay 400 dollars and surrender two captured
bagarahs.
In December, 1844, in consequence of an act of aggression
committed on the pearl banks, by a Joasmi dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. ^ on one from
Ejman, the 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. demanded 200 dollars as com
pensation, and the Commodore proceeded with two vessels of
war to Ras-ul-Khymah and Shargah, and enforced payment.
In 1846 hostilities commenced between the coalesced tribes of
Debaye, Ejman, and Amalgavine, against the Joasmis, during
which Sheikh Suggur bin Sultan, the son of the old Sheikh
Sultan bin Suggur, was killed. On the death of this fiery young
chief, who had always counselled his father # to give no heed to
the Resident's arguments for peace, Commodore Hawkins
proceeded to Shargah with a squadron, when, says Lieutenant
Disbrowe, the 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. , " he succeeded in
bringing hostilities to a close, and through his intervention a
temporary peace w 7 as concluded between the contending parties."
The truce, which was for six months, was signed in the presence
of the Commodore, " and," says Disbrowe, 64 that alone insured
its being kept inviolate "f
* Perhaps the last occasion on which the old Sheikh of Shargah, then said to
be one hundred and three years old, was brought to book by the Service, was in
1859, when Commodore GL Jenkins enforced at forty-eight hours notice, the
surrender of seven boats which had been engaged in piratical acts on the opposite
coast. He also extracted from the Bahrein Sheikh the restitution of the cargo of
a Persian ship with interest at five percent. In December 1857, when the British
merchant ship 4 Ambassador' went ashore on the island of Kenn, and was
plundered by the islanders, Commodore Jenkins recovered the whole of the cargo,
for which the underwriters in London proposed to present him with a complete
silver service of plate, though with characteristic disinterestedness, he only con
sented to receive a portion with a suitable inscription.
f In our account of the destruction of Ras-ul-Khymah and humiliation of the
Joasmi Arabs, we referred to Article IX. of the Treaty of the 8th of January,
1820, concluded with the maritime tribes of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , by which the Arab
chiefs bound themselves to cease from engaging in the slave trade. In the montli
of July, 1839, the following more detailed agreement was entered into with this
object, with the chiefs of Eas-ul-Khymah, Abu Thubi, Debaye, and Amal-
" Political Department, Bombay Castle, December 3, 1839.
<c The following engagement for the suppression of the slave trade in the Persian
Gulf, entered into with the British Government, by each of the four following
maritime Arabian chiefs, in the month of July last, is published for general in
formation, namely:—Sheikh Kuleefa of Abu Thubee, Sheikh Mukhtoom o
Debaye, Sheikh Abdoola of Amalgavine; and Sheikh Sultan bin Suggur ot as-
ul-Khymah. ^ ... n
" 4 1 do hereby declare, that I bind and pledge myself to the British ( joy