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EJMAN.

as the sea was under the dominion of the British Government, he had no
power upon that element.
Alluding to this interview, Shaikh Rashid himself, in a letter to the
Resident, dated in 1831, speaks of the pacific
a. d. 1831.
views of Toorkey bin Saood in terms of the
highest praise, and lakes credit for exertions to establish a good under­
standing between the British Government and the Wahabee Chief, from
whom he procured a letter to the address of the Governor of Bombay.
No belief, however, was placed in his sincerity, there being little doubt
that his real intentions were to excite hostility and disturbance,* and to
obtain a sanction for the renewal of the former system of indiscriminate
aggression and piracy.
Shaikh Rashid bin Humeed died, and was
a. d. 1838. succeeded in the authority over Ejman by his
son Humeed.
Shaikh Abdool Azeez, the elder brother of Shaikh Humeed bin
Rashid (the acknowledged chief), contrived with
a. d. 1841.
his slaves to effect, in May 1841, an entrance
into the fort of Ejman, and, being secretly supported by the greater part
of the inhabitants, to maintain his position : nor did Shaikh Sultan bin
Suggur, though the father-in-law of Humeed, exercise any interference,
but treated the affair entirely as a family quarrel.
Shaikh Abdool Azeez, however, alarmed at the preparations making
by his deposed brother to erect another fort in the neighbourhood,
deemed it advisable to restore him to his former authority, until a better
opportunity should offer to forward his object.
He has since succeeded in supplanting him, and is now the acknow­
ledged ruler of Ejman.

CONTINUATION TO THE YEAR 1853,

BY LIEUTENANT H. F. DISBROWE.
Taking up the history of this tribe in continuation of Captain Kem- 1
balPs Historical Sketches, the first occurrence
a. d. 1844.
worthy of notice is that of a collision, in Septem­
ber 1844, between two boats on the pearl banks, the one belonging to
Shargah, the other to Ejman. In this case the people of the Joasmees
were decidedly the aggressors.

* Such acta and proceedings of the tribe occupying Ejman as are worthy of notice, or mixed
up with the Policy of the British Government, are recorded in the Sketch of the Joasmee
Tribe. (Vide page 329 of this Selection.)