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Date. Occurrences.

compelled to throw down their arms, and escape to their
boats. Several of the principal men are killed. AKoweit
fleet arrives the same day at Bahrein, sets fire to, and plun­
ders the town.
a. d. 1783 The Zobara Arabs, assisted by their kinsmen from Koweit,
capture Bahrein from the Persians on 28th July. The four
sons of Jaubir bin Uttoobee, dissatisfied on this occasion
with the rewards and rank assigned to them, quit the island
in disgust; and, after wandering for a few years, establish
themselves at Khor Hassan, and commence a system of
piracy.
1800 The Imaum of Muskat reduces the island of Bahrein, and
sends all the head men, consisting of twenty-five families,
to Muskat. The Uttoobees return to Zobara, and solicit
the protection of the Wahabees, which is readily extended.
1801 Early this year the Uttoobees, with the assistance of the
Wahabees, retake Bahrein.
1S09 The Uttoobees deprecate the wrath of the British Government,
urge exemption from the general chastisement of the pirates
by the British forces, and solicit the countenance of the
British Government in throwing off the Wahabee yoke, and
quitting the main ; also some trifling support to enable them
to remain undisturbed at Bahrein. The British Government
abstain from all interference.
1810 The Wahabee ruler assumes the government of Bahrein and
Zobara, and appoints Abdoolla bin Oofeysan Yukeel over
those places, and the Kateef and Guttur districts, to convert
the Uttoobees to the Wahabee faith. The Uttoobees con­
tinue in administration, but pay tribute to the Vukeel.
1810-11 The Imaum, taking advantage of the attention and resources
of the Wahabee ruler being engaged in checking the
invasion of the Turkish troops under Ibrahim Pasha, attacks
Zobara and Bahrein, burns the former, and lands on the
latter. The Wahabee Vukeel, Oofeysan, is made prisoner,
and the Uttoobees recover the island.
May,1811 A desperate action was fought between Hamah’s fleet, accom-
panied by a fleet of boats belonging to the Joasmees of
Ejman, and the Uttoobees of Bahrein, in which the latter
are victorious.
1815-16 The Imaum attacks Bahrein. His troops land at Arad, and