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16 ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE PERSIAN GULF POLITICAL RESIDENCY
daughter of Sheikh Ahmed bin Itnsbid Morzooki of that place
and to endeavour to reconcile the latter with his tribesmen with
whom ho had quarrelled. To this end he summoned the ciders
of the tribe, who, however, refused to attend. The Sowlct
becoming exasperated at their refusal ordered Sheikh Saloh of
Charelc to expel them Irom his jurisdiction, and the latter
having refused to do so was thrown into chains. The Mnrzookis
then sent a deputation to our Agent at Lingah begging that tho
Residency would assist them to get justice. The Resident, who
w as then at Shiraz, did his utmost with tho Furs Government,
but the Governor-General, the Nizam-es Sultaneli, was altogether
unable to control the Sowlet-ul-Alulk; and as regards the im­
prisonment of Sheikh Saleh, IIis Excellency informed the
Resident confidentially, and the Derya Begi told a similar story
to our Agent at Liugah, that Sheikh Saleh had been arrested
at the express orders of the Shall, on the grounds that he was
believed to have been in league with the English to make over
Kais island to them 1 The Derya Bcgi having visited Lingah
in November and failed to adjust the quarrel, the Marzookis
took bast at the Agency. Meanwhile their families were
expelled from Charek and built, themselves temporary habita­
tions at the Jlingah suburb of Jasha. The Marzooki elders still
remained in bast at the end of the year, His Majesty’s Legation
having been unable to get tho Central Government to take any
seiions steps in the matter. In fact after the correspondence
had been going on six months the. Derya Begi received instruc­
tions from Tehran to reassure “ Sheikh Saleh of Khurag and bis
tribesmen,” showing clearly that the Shah’s Minis*ers had not
yet realised than the scene »*f the dispute was tho por' of
Charek sooth of Bushire and not the island of Kliarag bO miles
to the noi til!
OfcPtur^ofthe In November 1900 a family of Arabs known as the “sons of Bumaidi,”
pi?a^c8ofi>ayir. himself a noted outlaw, residing on tlie Dashti Coast in the noighbnuiliond of
the port of Dayir, pirated a Persian dhow at sea between Kais island and
the mainland at Ta<*na. They killed all the occupants exo« pt- one boy whom
they threw overboard, thinking he was dead, seized the cargo valued at
Bs. 6,000 and scuttled the dhow. The wounded hoy managed to reach
the shore in a half dead conditon and was eventually succoured l»v some
residents of Taona who found him lying on the sti and when passing from
one hamlet to another. As soon as he had sufficiently recover* d to make
a statement, he gave an account of the occurrence. It appeared that the
dhow of these “sons of Humaidi had been lying beside tho piraUd oliow in the
dry dock at Lingah for some days, the pirates no doubt, watching what cargo
■was put into her. "When the Shivoli vessel put to sea the pirate dhow followed
soon afterwards and committed the piiacy the same night.
In January 1907 a Koweit boom en route from Basrah to Koweit. with
a number of well-to-do passengers, male and female, failed to reach its
destination. A short time afterwards the boom appears to have snauded on
the island of Amair on the Arab Coast, where sbe was* salved bv the
inhabitant. While reported to have borne no traces whatever of having
encountered bod weather, and although In r gear was intact, a corpse or skeleton
was found tied to her anchor cable, and the decks of the craft we»o covcie
with stains indicating that a bloody struggle had taken place. On being tn 'en
to Bahrein by the salvers for sale slio was recognised by some Koueifc visi ois.
Circumstantial evidence regaiding the movements of the pirates anou u
time pointed to their having committed this outrage also and Sheikh i 11
was much excited when tho news reached him. "be Resident made riT*e* ..
tations on the subjeet to (lie Deiya Begi and as they j.reduced no result
communicated with Ilis Mujesty’s Minister and informed linn of wdut nuo
happened.
Alout tho same time the Senior Naval Officer was asked to take
U.M.S. Syhiux to Dayir to nake enquiries as to the precise habitat oi the gong,