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ADMINISTR ATION REPORT

OF TH*
PERSIAN GULF POLITICAL RESIDENCY

AND
MUSCAT POLITICAL AGENCY

FOB

1889-90.

Part L-GENERAL SUMMARY.

1. —OMAN-MUSCAT STATE.
The Annual Report of the Muscat Political Agency for the past year has
been prepared by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. Jayakar, and forms Part II of this
compilation*
It may be convenient to add here that His Highness Seyyid Feysal-bin-
Turki was, on the 6th of April 1890, formally recognized as Sultan and ruler
o£ the Muscat State, under orders of the Government of India.
2. —OMAN-PIRATE COAST.
During the year, a coalition was formed by the Chiefs of Shargah, Umm-
Iw-et-Kk&ixn&i Chief, Hunejd-hla- cl-Kawain, and Ras-el-Khaimah in opposition to
AbdnUah J nr uimL Abu Dhabi and Debay, and in March the Ras-el-
Khaimah Chief paid a visit to Shargah. The Chief of Ajman called at Shargah
at the same time, and, being to a certain extent neutral, was asked to mediate
in view to the maintenance of peace between the rival States; this office he,
however, declined.
In the early part of the year correspondence went on between the Chiefs of
TT~_Lr.r.;. rv^ Abu Dhabi and Umm-el-Kawain, the former uig-
£faub& AJ-fca-vR. ing the latter to join him in an expedition against
Staik Jasim of El-Katr, who, on the other hand, wrote to Ahmed-bin-Abdullah
claiming Iris assistance. This Chief decided to take no side in this quarrel, but
later he joined the Shargah coalition against the two southern States.
In April 1889, Shaikh Rashid proceeded to El -Bereymi, where he mediated
between two factions of the Naeen tribe and effected
Chief, Rashid- Bi»-Huaejd
Al'Bo'Afi. a reconciliation.
Shaikh Rashid remained on friendly terms with the Chiefs of the Shargah
confederacy, bat from having been asked to mediate between them and their
southern neighbours, be appears to have abstained from active part in the
quaneL