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326 JOASMEES.

owners. Upon this satisfaction being afforded, Shaikh Tahnoon libe­
rated the Joasmee vessels, but detained the slaves and pearls belonging
to Shargah, as a pledge for the settlement of debts due to one of
his subjects by a former inhabitant of Debaye, but now residing under
the protection of Shaikh Sultan, in Shargah. At the present lime
(December 1831) a correspondence is still carrying on touching the
pearls (the slaves having effected their escape to their old masters), but
little if any probability appears to exist of the affair being brought to a
final and peaceable termination.

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