"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٦‎٨‎٠] (١٧٨٢/٨٢٣)

680
18^«-27.
1828.
Serious
piracy on a
Sohar boaf,
1828.
with a squadron and demand full compensation; should it not be
granted he was to remove the Residoney Native Agent and to capture
all the vessels belonging to the port. As a result of his proceedings
ample redress was vouchsafed to the injured parties, the Shaikh of
Bahrain expressed himself satisfied, and a proper appreciation of the
treaty of ] 8 ;i0 was inculcated upon the people of the whole Gulf.
In 1826 a series of piracies were committed by 'Obaid-bin-Sa'adun
and Saif-bin-Dhaikhan (or Tikhan), adherents of the freebooter Suwaidan-
bin-Za'al who had fled from Abu Dhabi territory and settled at Dohah in
Qatar, in the nominal jurisdiction of the Shaikh of Bahrain. Their offences
included the taking of an Abu Dhabi Baghlah, several persons in which
were killed and wounded; the capture of an Umm-al-Qaiwain boat, not
long retained, with a loss to the defenders of one man killed and one
wounded; and the plunder of a vessel belonging to Bahrain. On
the ground that the base of these piratical operations was Dohah
in the jurisdiction of the shaikh of Bahrain, while the sufferers in one
case belonged to Umm-al-Qaiwain, a dependency of Sharjah, Sultan-
bin-Saqar now attempted to evade payment of the compensation arranged
in the Hanjam case of 1825 ; but his plea was not admitted by the
British authorities. It does not appear that in the cases of 1826,
though the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi appealed to the British authorities
and nearly declared war against the Shaikh of Bahrain, any action was
taken by the Resident ; but in 1827 the Shaikh of Sharjah was induced
to imprison one ""Adwi of 'Ajman who had committed piratical acts
against boats belonging to Dibai.
In 182S some Bani Yas pirates, who in July of that year had
captured two Bahrain Baqarahs and a Kuwait Batil not far from
Dohah, succeeded in escaping to the interior; but the boats taken
were recovered and restored to the owners. In September 1828 a
vessel manned chiefly by subjects of Abu Dhabi, after a cruise upon
the Persian Coast and the seizure of their captain at one place where
they touched, returned to the Arabian side, plundering on their
homeward way four boats belonging to ""Asalu which they found in
the neighbourhood of Yas Island; but the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, on
both parties appearing before him, caused the sufferers to be fully
compensated.
In 1828 the atrocities of earlier days were recalled to mind by an
attack made upon a boat from Sohar by a Batil under the command of one
Muslim-bin-Rashid of Ras-al-Khaimah ; in this affair the whole cargo
of tne Sohar boat was plundered, the crew numbering 14 persons were
tied to a grapnel and thrown overboard, and the vessel itself was