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834 JOASMEES.

British Government to afford redress ; but with reference to the seizures
of vessels belonging to Muskat, the acting governors of that place
fearing to incur his more decided enmity, so far from '
remonstrating,
tacitly, and in some oases openly, sanctioned them.
Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur applied for permission to grant assistance
to the Shaikh of Towanah against him of Charrak,
a. d. 1837.
both Persian subjects, who were preparing to
decide their quarrel by the sword,—a request with which his engage­
ment connected with the establishment of the restrictive line of course
afforded one just plea, among others, to the Resident, for refusing
compliance.
The people of Iieera, under the authority of Sultan bin Suggur,
committing a piracy upon a boat belonging to Bunder Abbas, that chief
of his own accord compelled restitution of the property plundered, and
adopted measures to prevent a recurrence of the offence.
The Joasmee Chief superseded his brother Saleh in the government
of Shargah, and appointed in his place his son,
a. d. 183S.
Suggur bin Sultan; a change which was viewed
with some dissatisfaction by the British authorities, the former being by
them considered one of the most enlightened and intelligent Arabs on
the coast, who had ever laboured to check the predatory spirit of his
countrymen, and maintained a continued cordial understanding with
the British Agent, Moolla Hussein, residing at this port.
Two piracies were this year committed, by two Joasmce subjects,
named Sultan bin Sohar and his brother Mahomed ; the former attended
with the murder of several persons, and the plunder of much property,
to the north of the Gulf, upon a boat belonging to Karrack, having on
board a wealthy subject of Chaab, who had fled Mohumrah on its
attack and capture by Ali Pasha of Bagdad, and was now on his return;
the other on a Batinah boat off Ras-ool-Hud. Sultan bin Sohar was after
some time discovered and seized at Lingah, and placed at the disposal
of the Resident, who sent him to Shaikh Samur, the Chaab Chief, to be
dealt with as he might think proper; the other, Mahomed, took refuge
at Ejman, but, as a subject of Sultan bin Suggur, was upon demand
subsequently given up by that chief, together with the Nakhoda
of the pirate vessel. As the first of these had suffered severely from
his confinement in chains at Shargah, he was released, together with
his fellow-prisoner, on their furnishing a bond to pay the sum o
crowns.
Alarmed at the threats held out against them by Shaikh Samur, the
Governor of Chaab, in consequence of the piracy committe on the
of his most wealthy subjects and
Karrack boat, having on board one
firmest adherents, by Sultan bin Sohar, the Joasmee Chiefs of Lingah

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