Page 186 - Arabian Gulf Intellegence

144
UTTOOBEES.

Date.
Occurrences.

Resident to interfere in his behalf, receives on board a
reinforcement of Beloochees, and returns toDamaum-on
entering which place lie fires a salute, as a mark of con-
tempt. Ahmed bin Soleyman, a nephew of the reigning
Shaikh, attacks him in his vessel. A desperate action
takes place. Ramali sets fire to his own magazine, and
blows himself and crew into the air.
a. d. 1826 Busheer, the son of Ramah, surrenders Damaum uncondi­
tionally. Ilis life and liberty are granted him, and he
proceeds to Muskat, where His Highness the Imaum pre-
sents him with a Buggalow, to enable him to gain a live­
lihood by trade.
Through the influence of the Imaum, Bushecr is permitted by
the Wahabee Chief to build a fort at Dareen, a place on
Tirhoot, an island opposite to Kateef, where he is joined
by many of the Aboosemate tribe, bitter enemies of the
Uttoobees.
Suliman bin Ahmed, the colleague and elder brother of Shaikh
Abdoolla, dies, and is succeeded in his property and
political influence by his eldest son, Shaikh Ivhaleefa,
who accordingly shares the net revenue of the island
equally with his uncle, with whom the executive power
and transaction of all public business still remain, the
concurrence of the nephew being, however, considered
necessary.
1827 A piracy is committed by Obed or Abdoolla bin Mohunnah,
an inhabitant of Biddah, a Bahrein dependency, upon a
Bushire boat, off Gonara.
1828 The Chief of Biddah, stabbing an individual of Bahrein, is
placed in confinement by his feudal superior. The inha
bitants thereon becoming refractory, are removed to Rowees
his control, and
and Fowarah, more immediately under
their fort is destroyed by the same authority.
Obed bin Mohunnah commits further piracies, but is in“f *
after a desperate resistance, taken prisoner on his an^
at Zeerah, on the Persian Coast, to make inquiries rega -
ing the destination of a Buggalow then at aac °r*
convicted by the British authorities, he is an ® f m
the Shaikh of Bushire, whose subjects tad
his late piracies, but contrives to escape.