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144 L'TTOOBEES.

Dntc. Occurrences.

Resident to interfere in his behalf, receives on board a
reinforcement of Belooehecs, and returns to Damaum ; on
entering which place lie fires a salute, as a mark of con­
tempt. Ahmed bin Solcyman, a nephew of the reigning
Shaikh, attacks him in his vessel. A desperate action
lakes place, llamah sets fire to his own magazine, and
blows himself and crew into the air.
x. i). 1820 Bnshcer, the son of Ramah, surrenders Damaum uncondi­
tionally. His life and liberty arc granted him, and he
proceeds to Mnskat, where Ilis Highness the Imaum pre­
sents him with a Buggalow, to enable him to gain a live­
lihood by trade.
Through the influence of the Imaum, Bushcer is permitted by
the Wahaboo Chief to build a fort at Darden, a place on
Tirhoot, an island opposite to ICatecf, where lie is joined
by many of the Aboosomatc tribe, bitter enemies of the
Uttoobces.
Suliman bin Ahmed, the colleague and elder brother of Shaikh
Abdoolla, dies, and is succeeded in bis properly and
political influence by his eldest son Shaikh Ivhalccfa,
who accordingly shares the net revenue of the island
equally with his uncle, with whom the executive power
and transaction of all public business still remain, the
concurrence of the nephew being, however, considered
necessary.
1827 A piracy is committed by Obed or Abdoolla bin Mohunnah,
an inhabitant of Biddali, a Bahrein dependency, upon a
Bushirc boat, oft’ Gonara.
182S The Chief of Biddah, stabbing an individual of Bahrein, is
placed in confinement by his feudal superior. 'The inha­
bitants thereon becoming refractory, are removed to llowecs
and Fowarah, more immediately under his control, and
their fort is destroyed by the same authority.
Obed bin Mohunnaii commits further piracies, but is himself,
after a desperate resistance, taken prisoner on his landing
at Zecrali, on the Persian Coast, to make inquiries regard­
ing the destination of a Buggalow then at anchor. Being
convicted by the British authorities, he is handed over to
the Shaikh of Bushirc, whose subjects had suffered from
his late piracies, but contrives to escape. The crew of Ids