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NAVIGATION OF THE

now in ruins, and only occasionally inhabited
hy the people ol
Zucnonee, or some straggling Bedouins.
Dooat Edlume.
The north point of Dooat Edlume is in lat. 26° 27'- N., I0n<r
50° 13' 52" E. It is a small bay, about four miles deep, having two and
two and a half fathoms in it.
Dooat Ensakrf.n.
The north point of Dooat Ensarren is in lat. 26° 9' 5" N., long. 50° 15'
30 E. It is a small bay, affording shelter for boats, with one and a
half and two fathoms water in it.
Debil Siioal.
Debil Shoal is divided by a channel two miles wide, having two and
a half and three fathoms in it. The shoal is dry at low-water, and safe
to approach to three fathoms. It also affords good anchorage under
the lee of it, well sheltered in norlh-westers. The northern point of the
larger shoal is in lat. 26° 18' 5" N., long. 50° 59' 50'' E.; the southern
part in lat. 26° 12' 25" N., long. 50° 59' 25" E.; and the centre of the
smaller shoal is in lat. 26° 10' 20" N., long. 50° 56' 25" E. Between
this shoal and the island of Bahrein there is a channel having from
three to seven fathoms in it.

BAHREIN.
The island of Bahrein or Awal, and adjacent islands, were known to
the ancients by the name of Tylos, and are mentioned by Arrian, We
have no satisfactory accounts of them from that period, until in the
possession of the Portuguese, who, soon after Ormus was taken by Albu­
querque, established settlements here and at Ivateef, and monopolised
a great portion of the pearl fishery and trade of the Gul-f. They were
expelled soon after the fall of Ormus, by the Persians, who were shortly
after expelled by Houd bin Jamain, the Shaikh of Alassar’s people,
who possessed the island for several years, when it was again con­
quered, after a severe struggle, by the Persians, and the whole of the
Alassar town laid in ruins, Reinforcements soon arriving, the Alassar
people again made head, and drove the Persians out of the island, and
rebuilt several towns on the ruins of the former ones, which are to be

seen at the present time.
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About seventy or eighty years back, the grandfather of the present :
Shaikh, who was of a powerful family, originally from Alassar, o t le
Uttoobee Tribe, entered into a secret treaty with the then Governor ot :
Bushire, stipulating to pay tribute to the Persian Government, i y

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