"ملف XXXVIII/٥ تقرير عن صور بقلم الرائد ج. ب. ميرفي.، المساعد الهندي، الوكيل السياسي، مسقط. ١٠-١٠-١٩٢٨". [ظ‎‎٢‎٧] (٣٠٨/٦٥)

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13. In September 1924 Major Hinde visited Sur and reported.
C£ I then enquired how it was I had received news that the Sheikh did
not permit the new Customs House at Sur to be built. Mahomed bin
JNaser became evasive and said nothin- had ever been sett ed about it final lv
denying that he had ever agreed to its being built and that he never would
agree. He went on to say that the right of His Highness to collect customs
tribe” 1 '^ AiqahadlieYer beenreC ° gniZedbyhiS forebears himself and his
r A 4 o 9 ,? 5 Col 1 onel Mheaux remarked that the Amirs were not verv
ioyal to the Sultan and that if they had done their duty and -iven the "w a H
of Sur all the support he was entitled to there would have bee’n no question of
paying a ransom for the release of a Hindu who was kidnapped by a Bedouin.
,. }P" ^ -h> e J e mher 1925 in protesting a-ainst having obtain a <e No OMpp-
tion certificate from the Political Agent before being allowed to imnm-f ^
and ammunitini) from Bombay Mahomed bin Naser wrote to the Govemment"of
fndia I Bubmit that this request of the Political Department of BomW i!
not fair to me as a ruler of an independent state and it would be hishlv detri!
mental to my dignity to ask for consent or certificate from the PohALAa
M uscat. I hold the Political Agent in high regard but T - v g “f,'
appreciate that I prefer to preserve the dignity ofray s tat e not tn^o™'’' r
detrimental to its independent position. ^ 1 t do an acfc
Mahomed bin Naser has at present as his Lieutenants} n'l Aku n i, u-
Saleh, a Habshi, who was his A-ent in Bomh-dv " r i Abdullah bm
to have drafted Mahomed bin Naser’s letter to ^the^overAfenV of d Ind- lepU /9 d
Mahomed bin Said, a Syrian whom he en-a-ed about four mn ?
teach his children. Reputed to know a little English and tot m Th trovfued°,
Appendix II.
Historical Summary of the Jtnebeh.
In 1865 the Jenebeh of Sur who were diseontpnfprl cm
rule, sought Wahabi assistence from Baraim and the* Wahabi agent 8
loth, sent a contingent who plundered Suq Sur assisted hv fhp b T
Bani bu Ali. Nearly all the damage inflicted fell on Hindu Hade
keepers of the place, who were British Indian subiects ■ Dm e^fAlr 0 ?'
losses was estimated at dollars 27,700 and one of tlArA-Aif * * . of their
another was wounded. Before being Xwed to W for Mu ^ led and
stripped of almost all their clothing u0 " ea to for Muscat they were
W 'tSS 8 $*i£& sy r d —h. «
Wahabis in the plunder and murder of our tubfecfe at"^^ With ! he
reasons too which called for the punishment of tlm Jcnebeh ' Tbe^t 0
been notorious among our naval officers as the most cruel and
slavers and pirates. Thev were amon- Hip a Ae A 1 a ? d , unsCra pulous
conspired in 1861 to assassinate the British A-ent at T ha - d
si very proceedings. It was also believed that ° thev weA A f ° r A 1 ® antl “
murder of three seamen of H. M. S. “ Wasn ” w lin hi A /■ Con cemed m the
craft a few months before. The 8ultan of * disappeared from their
pality and had himself proceeded to S u 7flyf ors S monirr"- 0f , their C1 ' imi -
intention of punishing them, but was obliged to return to^M 11817 * Wlt - h the
a conspiracy to dethrone him. Colonel Pelfv had akJ A Muscat 0 " 1,l 8 to
sent the “Berenice” to Sur“ ahtWalT " ^ le P^og month
the Jenebeh demanding payment of 27 000 /'tT 0 ' to tile Hea< is of
for the property plundered by them from Brhish t- f col ”P e ^ a tion
them that measures would be Taken * T sub Jf cts » warning
reply was -‘That on a former octiofThe^Li^teZtte TrT Their
a tribe on the coast, nothing was done and that ft ^ ■ Pen S ell y threatened
Besident would not come now.” ’ at they were ^ uite sure the
. t)n the 11th of February 1866 H M S “ Hi'n-EAx^
to insist on atonement by the Jenebeh for their part in t^affaTTAugft,^