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was still in progress. During the trouble at the capital, Quryat also had
been attacked by the raider Qurta, and two British subjects there had
sustained losses to the amount of 11,000.
The principal tribes implicated on the rebel side at Masqat were the Tnbes^mpU-
Hirth • the Habus, along with their dependents the A1 Bu Hashaid and caslia ities.
gome of the Zikawinah and Warud ; the Bani Battash ; the Aw amir of
; Oman Proper ; the Bani Ruwahah ; the Rahbiyin ; and the Hinawis of
middle and lower Wadi Samail, especially those of Fanjah and Khodh ; to
whom may be added the Bani Na'aman, Shuruj and Fawaris, also the inhabi
tants of the Rustaq valley and a number of the people of Khadhra and of
other places in Batinah. At the end of the insurrection the rebels at Masqat
were about 2,000 strong, while the loyalists approached double that number.
On the side of the Sultan about 40 were killed and 60 wounded: the
losses of the rebels were estimated at 80 killed and 80 wounded.
Internal history of 'Oman from the rebellion to the rupture
with Great Britain, 1895-98.
The credit of the malcontent tribes and of their Shaikhs was as much
depressed by the partial failure of the rebellion as that of the Sultan
by its partial success ; and, except in the distant dependency of Dhufar,
where the Sultan's authority was in abeyance from 1895 to 1897,
the internal peace of 'Oman was not seriously disturbed during the
next four years. For a time, however, the Sultan continued to be
harassed by swarms of rapacious Shaikhs who crowded in fiom all
parts, but chiefly from Sur and Samail, to claim rewards for real
imaginary services rendered during the crises. f . T
In June 1895 there took place at Izki one of the periodical con ic s
between the Nizar and Y aman inhabitants of that place, the ^
being aided as usual by the neighbouring Bani R iy am an ^
latter by the Bani Ruwahah ; but peace was easily lestoie y a y
Muhammad, elder brother of the Sultan, whom His Highness sen o
mediate between the factions. ...
In November 1895 Badar-bin-Hilal was assassinated at Nizwa by Acq^t-
the Bani Shakail; and Saiy id Faisal, who had governed that p ac the Sultan,
Wali before its loss in his father's time, despatched his trus y s f lva
Sulaiman-bin-Suwailim, then on leave from Dhufai, to lecover
name ; this Sulaiman effected by the simple expedient of buying oi
holders and installing a garrison of his own in then p ace.