'File 4/3 Muscat Administration Reports and related correspondence' [‎9r] (17/152)

On May 19th there was rurther fighting, and on May Slet
the Earl Kigali n.ade an attach In force on the Ban! Ruwahah at
Giiubre ( ) but were repulsed with the lose of P7 aen hl31d
itirtlier fighting ensued at intervals with losses m both sides,
but at the end of August it was reported that the dispute had
been settled.
On August 8th His Highness received news that the Ban!
Ruwahah had captured the fort of 3i k jah froL the Ban! Jabir.
His Highness sent hlo son Saiyid hadir to oeL.ayil with 30 bags
of rice and 6,000 cartridges. The dispute was settled at the
end of August, and Sai^id Kadir placed 00 of his ten in the
fort of Sijjah to heep the peace. The total casualties dvirlng
the feud were 554, and 10,000 date trees were destroyed# Saiyid
Kadir returned to Muscat on September ^ord and a salute of 11
guns v.as fired in his honour.
In April the head of the Eani Eu Ali tribe. Shaikh Abdul-
lah bin Sal it, cate down to Sur. He refiased to receive a
present of 5500 dollars sent to nit bj the Sultan and returned
to J&alan apparently in a huff# Later in August Abdullah bin
i
Sadin ag'ain arrived in Sur with 160 ten# About this tine the
Sultan received two letters fret the Shaikhs at Sur, stating
that tney intended to levy a 6 £ tax fret traders to ootpeneate
theoifielves fer the trouble of settling canes# The Sultan re
plied objecting strongly to the proposal.
The Sultan sent Abdullah bin Sal in. a present of ?CC dol
lars, 6 bags rice and axemunition in addition to his subsidy of
5500 dollars due for three n.onths, in order to preT'ert hi:, from
stirring the troubled waters at Sur. In September a nett lei ert
was arrived at through the medium of an agent whom His Highness
despatched tc Sur, and Abdullah bin Salim returned to Jalaan•
On lecember 4th, the V#a3i of Sur reported to His Highness
that 50 men of the Eani Bailsib oi Jalaan nad attacked 3ur and
had