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RESIDENCY AND MUSKAT POLITICAL AGENCY FOR 1878-79.
El-Bidaa and landed for booty on the island of El-Kais. On the whole,
there were, during; the year, more than twenty instances of seizure and
plunder of boats, many of which belonged to Bahrain. Probably the
loss of property amounted to two or three thousand pounds. As the
culprits acted from Turkish territory and retired there with their plunder,
representations were made to the Turkish Authorities in each instance,
and they were eventually moved to take some preventive and punitive
measures. The latter have been, however, ill-directed; and whilst a
handful of unarmed fishermen at El-Hasein suffered vicariously for the
misdeeds of Zaccd and his gang, the latter have continued to enjoy with
impunity the fruits of their exploits, and none of the plundered property
has been recovered. Iler Majesty's Ship Vulture, under Captain Eliot-
Pringle, lt.N., rendered excellent service by the capture of a fleet of
boats of the Omeycr tribe and the recovery of stolen Bahrain vessels
under very difficult circumstances.
38. In the month of August a piratical attack on passing vessels
was made under the sanction of the Shaikh of the town of Zobdrah on
the Katr promontory, and the Governor of Busrah wTas asked to punish
the offenders. But before His Excellency took any steps, .Jasirn-bin
Mohammcd-bin-Thani of El-Bidaa, with Nasir-bin-Mubarik, the Bahrain
refugee, appeared at Zobarali with a force, and razed it to the ground.
The inhabitants took refuge in the adjacent fort of Morcyr, where they
were for some time closely besieged and eventually had to accept hard
terms. The destruction of the town rendered any further measures for
punishment of the inhabitants unnecessary.
30. During the year the old Shaikh of El-Bidaa, Mohammed-bin-
Thani, who bad always been friendly to tbe British, died. His son
Jusiro bad for many years been de facto Shaikh of El-Bidaa under
Turkish patronage.
5.—Southern Pcrsia.

Provinces of ’Arabistan, Fdrs and Persian Beloochistan.
40. ’Arahistan.—An account of the topography, government and
population of this province, which has by Europeans been often called
Persian-Arabia, written by Mr. P. J. C. Robertson, Assistant Political
Tide Appendix C to Part L Agent at Busrah, is given in the Appen-
dix to this part, and the following par­
ticulars of recent occurrences there are chiefly on the same authority
* f1- Felahiyah.—lrx the month of May 1878, the hereditary Chief
of the Feldhiyah Section of the Ka'ab (Cha'ab) Arabs, Shaikh Lufti-
bm-Imbadir was murdered by his cousin Ja'afer-bin-Mohammed and
onaikh Ramah, another cousin, was nominated Chief of Feldhivfdl,
revenue and pishkash of the district being fixed at 10 000
The districts Deh-ul-Moolla, JerrShy, HindiySn and bS ifi™’
previously belonging to Felahiyah, were now detached from if a
Armr Abdullah of Deh Moolla was appointed Chief of the new eroun
on agreeing to pay 12,000 tomans, revenue and nisbkash in
9,000 tomans already due by him for Dch Moolla. As the ySn’rov^
• had one from want of rain, Amir Abdullah only succeed^