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threatened to give umbrage to Toorkey, and elicited
a most intemperate
letter from his Agent, Abdool Azeez, to the British Agent at Shargah
As the former wrote without any authority, no direct notice was taken
of his communication ; but the latter was instructed, in reply, to explain
that previous to the adoption of coercive measures, a whole year had
been consumed in negotiation, without success, and no interference
volunteered on his part for the promotion of the ends of justice* and,
further, to use other arguments, importing the evident existence of our
right to demand redress. Abdool Azeez returned for answer that
Toorkey bin Saood was now the only authority on the continent of
Arabia, and that both citizens and Bedouins, maritime as well as inland
tribes, having all acknowledged his supremacy, he was in fact the ruler
of the country, including Ilaajar, Oman, and the coast from Jaalan
to Kateef, and that therefore, on the occurrence of any piracy, it should
be reported to the Wahabee Chief, or, in the event of his being at too
great a distance, to his Agent at Brymee.
The blockade of Kateef and Ajeer by the Bahrein party caused the
greatest annoyance and distress to the people of
a. d. 1834.
those places under the authority and protection
of the Wahabee Chief, who now called in the assistance of the Joasmees
of Ras-ool-Khyma and Lingah. His violent death, however, at this
time, by the hand of his nephew, Musharee, led to the suspension of
offensive operations, and introduced into the affairs of the Wahabee
Tribe such confusion and discord as to counteract the operation of any
ambitious views of late entertained by the murdered chief, and for a
time at least to leave the maritime tribes in the same relative position
as heretofore. There was every reason for supposing that this violent
and daring act had been instigated by Abdoolla bin Ahmed, who had
kept up a correspondence with the murderer, and who received the
news of the death of the Wahabee Chief with the firing of guns, and
other demonstrations of joy.
Musharee was not permitted long to survive his victim, whose son,
Fysul, immediately quitting Kateef and its neighbourhood, which he
had been defending against the attacks of the Bahrein forces, marched
against him, and laid siege to the fort of Koot, in which he had taken
refuge. Treachery on the part of the adherents soon placed Fysul in
possession of the fort, when he avenged the murder of his father by
putting Musharee, with twenty others, to the sword.
About the middle of the year 1835 arrived at Muskat, from Mecca,
a person by name Abdoolla bin Musharee, at one
a. d. 1835. time a very respectable merchant of Bahrein,
the Imaum of Muskat, Abdoolla
bearing letters from Ahmed Pacha to the Wahabee
bin Ahmed the Uttoobee Chief, and Fysul bin Toorkey

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