"تاريخ أئمة وأسياد عُمان بقلم سليل ابن رزيق، من ٦٦١-١٨٥٦ م، مترجم من الأصل العربي، ومُحرّر بملاحظات وملاحق ومقدمة تواصل التاريخ حتى سنة ١٨٧٠، بقلم جورج بيرسي بادجر، عضو في الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية والقس الراحل في رئاسة بومباي." [‎١‎٨] (٦١٢/٣١)

editor's preface.
of important places mentioned in these annals is con-
sideial )le, and tlie latter liave enabled me to make
some additions to the native nomenclature of the pro
vincial subdivisions. I have also revised Wellsted's
vei^ impeifeet spelling 1 of the Arabic names through
out, and have comprised in the revision the littoral
of the I ersian Gulf and the parts adjacent included
in the map accompanying' this work. Some improve
ment in that respect over the " Chart of the Persian
Gulf/' constructed by Captain Brucks of the Honour
able Company's Marine, was made in the chart pub
lished by the Admiralty in 1860, which embodies the
more recent surveys by Commander C. G. Constable
and Lieutenant A. W. Stiffe, both of the Indian Navy;
but a great many of the names remain uncorrected,
which if pronounced as transliterated into English
would not be recognized by the Arabs. It is to be
regretted that the Admiralty have omitted the
names in the Arabic characters, which in Brucks's
chart are printed together with the English. The
"view of Maskat on the map is from a photograph by
the late Surgeon Welsh, who was attached to the
Maskat-Zanzibar Commission.
A few words respecting the translation : the
Arabic copy from which it is made is written in a
legible hand and in an easy style, which I have
striven to preserve. The general absence, however,
of vowel-points has rendered it very difficult to ascer
tain the correct pronunciation of names, especially
those of obscure localities. The original is undoubt
edly the work of Salil-ibn-Razik, but several addi-