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compelled to throw down their arms, and escape to their
boats. Several of the principal men arc killed. AKowoit
fleet arrives the same day at Bahrein, sets fire to, and plun­
ders the town.
a. n. 1783The Zobara Arabs, assisted by their kinsmen from Kowoit,
capture Bahrein from the Persians on 28th July. The four
sons of Jaubir bin Uttoobcc, dissatisfied on this occasion
with the rewards and rank assigned to them, quit the island
in disgust; and, after wandering for a few years, establish
themselves at Khor Ilassan, and commence a system of
piracy.
1800 The Imaum of Muskat reduces the island of Bahrein, and
sends all the head men, consisting of twenty-five families,
to Muskat. The Utloobces return to Zobara, and solicit
the protection of the "Wahabccs, which is readily extended.
1801 Early this year the Uttoobecs, with the assistance of the
Wahabccs, retake Bahrein.
J.S09 The Uttoobecs deprecate the wrath of the British Government,
urge exemption from the general chastisement of the pirates
by the British forces, and solicit the countenance of the
British Government in throwing oil* the Wahabcc yoke, and
quitting the-main ; also some trifling support to enable them
to remain undisturbed at Bahrein. The British Government
abstain from all interference.
1810 The Wahabcc ruler assumes the government of Bahrein and
Zobara, and appoints Abdoolla bin Oofeysan Vukcci over
those places, and the Kateef and Guttur districts, to convert
the Uttoobecs to the Wahabcc faith. The Uttoobecs con-
linuc in administration, but pay tribute to the Vukeel.
1810-11 The Imaum, taking advantage of the attention and vcsourccs
of the Wahabcc ruler being engaged in checking the
invasion of the Turkish troops under Ibrahim Pasha, attacks
Zobara and Bahrein, burns the former, and lands on the
latter. The Wahabcc Vukeel, Oofeysan, is made prisoner,
and the Uttoobecs recover the island.
May,1811 A desperate action was fought between Hamah’s fleet, accom­
panied by a fleet of boats belonging to the Joasmeos of
Ejman, and the Uttoobecs of Bahrein, in which the latter
. arc victorious.
1815-16 |Thc Imaum attacks Bahrein. His troops land at Arad, and