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.who would join them, and co-opcralc in the reduction of Bahrein, were
upheld by the promise of grants of land, money, and exclusive
privileges of tenure. This service was shortly completed, and the
rewards conferred, in the distribution of which the four sons of Jaber
bin Utloobec claimed a voice in the government, and were refused,
although by the original compact they possessed a just hereditary right
to an equal share of the benefits of a conquest, in the completion of
which they had shed their blood.
On this they left the island of Bahrein in disgust, and commenced
the mode of life their progenitor had pointed out to them, in which
they have since persevered.
Of the four brothers, sons of Jaber bin Uttoobcc Yalahimah, Rahmah
bin Jaber only is alive ; Abdoolla bin Jaber was inhumanly butchered
by the Prince of Pars, while living under his pledged protection ;
Shahin bin Jaber died five years ago, on his return from pilgrimage ;
and Mahomed bin Jaber was lately killed while defending the family
of his brother, at Khor Hassan, from the attack of the Shaikhs of
Bahrein.
After this conquest, the Ulloobecs paid a trifling tribute to the
Persians only four times, and then discontinued it altogether.