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if they landed in Bahrein, and reduced it, the Imauin was to pay
10,000 Tomans annually to the Government of Shiraz.
97. The expedition against Bahrein was soon abandoned, the
Imaum having discovered that the Government of Persia was actuated
by motives of treachery, and contemplated his seizure, and that of some
of his chiefs, and carrying them off to Shiraz.
98. In the month of May in the following year, Rahmah bin Jaubir
proceeded to Muskat, with the view of prevail-*
A. D. 1817.
ing on the Imaum to make another attack on
Bahrein, but His Highness was too much occupied in his own terri­
tories to undertake it, having met with a repulse from a Joasmee force
that marched against Khore Fukaun, which surrendered to those
freebooters.
99. By late accounts (1818) the Imaum was meditating another
expedition against Ras-ool-Khyma.

CONTINUATION OF THE FOREGOING SKETCH, TO
THE YEAR 1831,
BY LIEUTENANT IIENNELL, ASSISTANT RESIDENT, PERSIAN GULF.

Mr. Warden’s Sketches of the Arabian Tribes in the Gulf of Persia
conclude the history of the Government of Muskat, in 1S17, with the
account of the Imaum’s defeat in his attack on Bahrein, and the
abandonment by His Highness of a second attempt upon that island
(in which he was to have been joined by a body of Persian horse and
foot), in consequence of his discovering that the Fars Government was
actuated by motives of treachery. His Highness, however, appears to
have been much hurt at the duplicity and double dealing of the Court
of Shiraz, and certainly not without reason, for while the Persian
authorities detained the Muskat vessels in the Gulf during many
months, at a heavy expense, for the purpose of embarking the troops,
which they pretended were collecting to co-operate against Bahrein,
they sent over messengers to the chief of that island, and concluded a
separate agreement, on receiving presents to a considerable amount.
In consequence of this conduct, His Highness despatched a messenger
in April 1818 to Bushire, for the purpose of proceeding to the Shah’s
presence, to lay before His Majesty all the documents relating to his
negotiations with the Government of Fars, and to intimate that he
should in future look to other sources than Persia for support in carry­
ing into effect his views upon the Uttoobee territory. This person, on

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