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Article IV.

After the execution of these engagements, Mahomed bin Haza bin
Zaal and his followers shall be admitted to the same terms of peace as
the remainder of the Friendly (literally the Pacificated) Arabs.
On these conditions there is a cessation of hostilities between the
British and Mahomed bin Haza bin Zaal and his followers ; with the
exception that their boats are not to go to sea.
Done at Ras-ool-Khyma, on the twenty-third of Rubee-ool-Awul, in the
year one thousand two hundred and thirty-five (corresponding to the
ninth of January 1820 J.
W. Grant Keir,
(A true translation)
Major General.
T. P. Thompson,
Captain, 17th Light Dragoons, and Interpreter.
Witnessed by the signature
of Shaikh Hamza bin Ma­
homed bin Jabin Amul-
gavine, Shaikh of Kishm,
Seal of Ahmed Futeis. with his own hand.

Copy of the Articles between the General and Mahomed bin Haza
bin Zaal. Witness my hand and seal.
W. Grant Keir,
Major General.

Translation of the Preliminary Treaty with Shaikh Shakhboot,
of Aboothabee.

In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate !
Know all men, that Shaikh Shakhboot bin Dhyal, al FuLAHY, has
been in the presence of General Sir William Grant Keir, and there
have passed between them the following stipulations :—
Article I.
If in Aboothabee, or any other of the places belonging to Shaikh
Shakhboot, there are any of the vessels of the piratical powers which
have been attacked, or may be hereafter attacked by the General during
the present war against the pirates, he shall deliver such vessels to the
General.