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34G JOASMEES.

Joasmec Chief will probably despatch his brother Saleh bin Suggur to
open negotiations.
Some cases of irregularities on the pearl banks have occurred during
the present season, in which the Joasmee subjects are the principal
aggressors, and the proper remedies have been, or are in the course of
being applied, with every prospect of a speedy settlement.

CONCLUSION, TO THE YEAR 1853,
BY LIEUTENANT H. F. DISBROWE.

We arc told by Captain ICemball, at the close of his Sketch of the
Joasmee Tribe, that a few irregularities had
A. D. 1841.
occurred on the pearl banks during the present
season, “ in which the Joasmee subjects were the principal aggres­
sors,” and for which “ the necessary remedies were being applied, with
every prospect of a speedy settlement.”
It would appear that five vessels pertaining to the Boo Mahir Tribe,
which then resided at Shargah, and was consequently subject to Shaikh
Sultan bin Suggur, attacked, in June 1S44, two boats of Debaye, and -
took from them a quantity of pearls and arms, on the pretext of the
people on board the latter owing them a sum of money, which they :
refused to disburse.
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Another case occurred about the same period. It consisted in an
" aggression committed by one of Shaikh Sultan’s subjects, called
Mahomed bin Majid, in taking a native of Chaab from a Debaye boat,
while on the pearl banks.”
These being the first instances of an open violation of the Maritime
Truce, so lately entered into with the Arab Chiefs, it was highly neces­
sary that prompt and immediate steps should be adopted to bring to
an account the parties who had been guilty of infringing it. Colonel
Hennell therefore addressed a letter to the Joasmee Chief, calling upon
him to summon his refractory subjects from the pearl banks, and
demanding the instant return of the five boats to Shargah, where they
must be made to surrender to the injured parties of Debaye all the
property they had plundered. In the second case, Mahomed bin
Majid was to be likewise summoned to Shargah, and be compelled to
deliver up the man he had captured ; and in either case was an
additional security for future good behaviour in the shape of 50 German
crowns to be demanded from the chief parties implicated (the
Nakhoda of each boat. and Mahomed bin Majid), until payment of