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horses. The Wall’s Askaris are believed to have imd a hand in it i u
conjunction with the Bani Bn Ali. They have been replaced by others from
Muscat. The Wall’s telephone line from his residence to the customs i« ni^
being cut constantly.
94a. About this time a party of the Meshaikh tribe (a small tribe of
Bedouins and robbers, originally allied to the Beni Bu ilassan, but now
stated to be under the protection of the Bani Bu Ali) stationed themselves on
the road outside Muqrimatain and looted all people coming into Sur for
some days. They killed a number of donkeys.
95. On the 18th September a shop belonging to a British subject—
Motimul Sukkumul—was broken into at noon by two men, an Arab and
a slave, whilst the owner was upstairs. The robbers ran away on seeing the
owner coming down, taking with them $138 in cash and ornaments worth
$95 ; whilst running away they dropped $45 worth of ornaments, which were
recovered.
96. Mahomed bin Naser of the Bani Bu Ali removed the flagstaff from
his house at Aiqa and erected a new flagstaff on ground level. On the
21st September Abdulla bin Saleh, mentioned above, hoisted Ibn Sand’s
flag on the newly erected flagstaff. A salute of three guns was fired when
the flag was hoisted and one gun when it was lowered in the evening
- appears to be a parallel to the action of Saiyid Fadhl bin Alawi
.Moplah at Dhofar in 1875, when the latter styled himself as Governor of
Dhoiar under the Ottoman Porte (see Lorimer, Vol. I, p. 591).
, On the 21 st September a caravan from Budiyah (Imam’s territory)
which had brought dry dates for Khimii Ramdas and obtained advances for
a lurther supply, was returning to Budiyah laden with rice. It was seized
by a party of Fuwaris under one Said bin Abdulla, who was the leader of the
party who looted Khimji Ramdas’s boat on the 21st August. Naser bin Ali
a lump Ramdas’s landlord succeeded in intercepting them before they had
reached Jebel FI Fed and recovered the caravan without loss. Said"went
to the Wall and threatened him that if the Council did not release the
man whom they had arrested at Muscat in connection with the looting of
the buggalow, he would commit further mischief.
98. On the 26th September Mahomed bin Naser wrote to the Wali of
Sur not to allow caravans to come to Sur from Budiyah with dales. The
-i • al + 1 refus ^ to comply. He also wrote to the Political Agent stating that
lus truce with the Hijnym had been broken and asking hirnto warn British
subjects not to deal vyith the Hijnym of Budiyah. He was asked not to
interfere with the legitimate trade of British subjects
It would seem from the above that the gang of Fuvvaris were acting in
conjunction with Mahomed bin Naser in stopping the Budiyah caravan.
99. It is believed that this action of the Amir is in order to induce
caravans to proceed to his new customs at Aiqa instead of Muqrimatain.
He ha> also attempted to induce British merchants to transfer themselves to
Muscat ahthOTities haige ^ Cent lnStead of 5 per cent 88 char g ed by the
. - 1 '"r 1 f bas been tiouble also with regard to a Chinaman who went
111 v f A 611 a ".i MuScat - , Ile bought a large quantity of fish and fins
and lefusecl to pay the export duty on the grounds that iie had already paid
H l e , I A l. lrs - 0“ 1° 16th September Abdulla bin Saleh wrote'to the
Am' lit f' i'-’ Sa ‘ n S f la t the Chinaman was under the protection of the
i mi is, that his goods should be shipped to any place he desires, and that
rule of the Amis ^ " S lt t0 recover an y c,ut y in any places under the
"'l 1 September the Director of Customs at Muscat received
t ''T .!' 0111 bur that the Amirs had ordered their man in charge of
s oms a . iqa to count the sailing vessels entering Jerama and Sur creeks
hlli e 'I/A;i, ndeJ l 0 c h ar 8 e anchorage fee. They intended also to register
louts ut Aiqa in the name of the Amirs.
the !iu 2 ?tI y ° f i S 8 -- on ® 3 1 K ' lor Jeiama would appear to be a revival of
the dispute in 18i ,-80, when the people of Has el Hadd attempted to levy