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: l upon plundering excursions into the Brymee country, and on his
secretly left Khutlum with four hundred followers, with the inlentio W
making a night attack upon these two places (Shargah and Debave°i
- but his object being betrayed, he was compelled to relinquish the
design, and proceeded in the direction of Ras-ool-Khyma. Here
however, he found Shaikh Sultan prepared to receive him, and was
therefore unable to inflict any serious injury. After killing four and
wounding two men of the Joasmees, he was obliged to retreat, with the
loss of throe men killed, and his own riding camel, with accoutrements,
■which fell into the hands of the enemy.

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CONTINUATION TO THE YEAR 1853,

BY LIEUTENANT H. F. DISBROWE.
The Shaikh of Debaye in the early part of the year 1843, at a time
when contentions were raging between the Joas-
a. d. 1843.
mee and Aboothabee Chiefs, after observing
a strict neutrality for a considerable period, suddenly entered into
an alliance with the latter, and offered his services as a mediator
between the two belligerents. “ This proceeding,” we are told
by Captain Kern ball, “ gave umbrage to Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur,
who but ill concealed his disapprobation” : indeed the aversion of the
chiefs must have been reciprocal; for at one moment we find Shaikh
Muktoom of Debaye acting mediator, and presently we observe him,
after a peace has been effected between the two rival chieftains,
instigating the one, his ally (Shaikh Khaleefa, Chief of Aboothabee), to
break the peace by foraying the territories of the other (Shaikh Sultan
bin Suggur), his enemy. The subjects of either party, too, those of the
Joasmee as well as of Debaye, began to show their feelings of enmity,
by a course of petty aggressions, which however, it must be allowed,
do not seem to have been committed with the knowledge or consent of
either of the chiefs.
Mahomed bin Majid, a subject of Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur, having
seized (August 1844) a native of Chaab from a
a. d. 1844.
Debaye boat, the people of the latter tribe, not
choosing to await reparation that they knew would be, and which
eventually was, afforded them by the Resident, took upon themselves to

ubsequent proceedings and intrigues of the Debaye Chief, being generally connected
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with the occurrences among the Beniyas and Joasmecs, are recorded in the Sketches of those
tribes.

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