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524 KHOR HASSAN.

Rahmah bin Jaubir, after his arrival at Bushirc, paid the Resident
visit, and renewed his professions of friendship towards the British G *
vernment, and requested the Resident to say that he should be happy to
attend to any wishes Government might have towards checking the
*: depredations of the Joasmecs.
Mr. Bruce having communicated to Rahmah bin Jaubir the friendly
a. d. 1817. disposition towards him of the British Govern­
ment, he expressed himself highly flattered :
he had just returned from a successful cruise to the southward of
Bahrein, against the Joasmec boats, which frequented that island for
supplies of dates, rice, &e. in return principally for the property of the
Surat ships. He intercepted twelve boats laden with supplies proceed­
ing to Ras-ool-Khyma, four of which he sank, after taking out their
cargoes ; four others he broke up for the want of men to man them, and
four he brought to Bushire. He intended, after landing the property
which he had brought to that place, to proceed again to the southward
)
to cruise between the piratical ports and Bahrein.
In 1818 Rahmali bin Jaubir proceeded to, and landed with some guns
at Kateef, which he battered, in concert with
a. d. 1818.
Ibrahim Pacha, and commenced to rebuild his
old fort at Demaum, which the Wahabees had blown up in July 1816,
to which, when finished, he intended to remove from Bushire, with
1 his family and adherents.

CONTINUATION OF THE PRECEDING TO
THE YEAR 1831,

BY LIEUTENANT S. HENNELL.

Mr. Warden’s Sketches conclude in 1818, by stating that Rahmah
bin Jaubir had commenced the rebuilding of his fort at Demaum,
which had been destroyed by the Uttoobees in 1816.
above mentioned the records of the Bushire Resi
From the period
dency make no mention of this notorious person
A. d. 1819. till July 1819, when he is stated to have been at
Kateef at the time Captain Sadlier landed there on his mission to ra’
Pacha, and that he rendered that officer every assistance, pilot! g
him
the Vestal cruiser himself into the harbour.

* A fort on a small island opposite Bahrein, and close to Kateef.