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Date. Occurrences.

arc signally defeated, with great loss, two of his
and principal Sirdars being killed. relations
A. D.
The Wahabee Chief, incensed against Shaikh Hamah bin
Oct. 1S1G
Jaubir, for having taken part with the Imaum of Muskat,
directs his property and family to be seized and brought
up to Denali : he escapes with them, with great difficulty
to Bushire.
1S18 Ramali bin Jaubir proceeds to, and lands with some guns at
Kateef, which, in concert with Ibrahim Pasha, he batters,
and commences to rebuild his old fort at Damaum, destroy­
ed by the Wahabecs in 1816.
1819 Seventeen Indian women, captured by the pirates of Ras-ool-
Khyma, are restored to liberty, by the Bahrein Chiefs
releasing a number of Joasrnee prisoners in exchange, at
the instance of Captain Lock, of His Majesty’s vessel
Eden, on that ship visiting the island, accompanied by
five other vessels of war, for the purpose of inquiring into
the report that several Indian women Fiad been brought
from Ras-ool-Khyma, and publicly sold in the bazar at
Bahrein, which proved unfounded.
1819-20 Ramah bin Jaubir is informed by the British authority that
his vessels would not be permitted to leave Kateef to cruise
against the people of Bahrein, unless acting with an
authorised State, in regular warfare.
Feb.1820 He proceeds with his three vessels to Bushire, in order to
co-operate in an expedition projected against Bahrein
by the Prince of Shiraz. On his way down to Tauzee his
large Buggalow is wrecked on the Berdistan Shoal, and he
and his people escape with great difficulty with their lives.
Ramah bin Jaubir refuses to become a member of the Ge­
April.
neral Treaty, under the plea of his being the servant of the
Persian Government. The Governor of Bushire engaginD
to be responsible for his future peaceable conduct, t ie
excuse is admitted. .
After the capture of Ras-ool-Khyma by the British expe 1110 *
the Shaikh of Bahrein delivers up the vessels belonging o
the piratical powers, which wrere in his harbour. the
The General Treaty is first signed at Ras-ooLKhyma ^
Vukeel of the Uttoobee Shaikhs,
themselves in Bahrein.

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