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524 KIIOIl II ASSAM.

Rahmah bin Janbir, after bis arrival al Bushire, paid the Resident a
visit, and renewed his professions of friendship towards the British Go­
vernment, and requested the Resident to say that he should be happy to
attend to any wishes Government might have towards checking the
depredations of the Joasmccs.
Mr. Bruce having communicated to Rahmah bin Jaubir the friendly
disposition towards him of the British Govern­
a. d. 1817.
ment, he expressed himself highly flattered :
he had just returned from a successful cruise to the southward of
Bahrein, against the Joasmce boats, which frequented that island for
supplies of dates, rice, &c. in return principally for the property of the
Surat ships. He intercepted twelve boats laden with supplies proceed­
ing to Ras-ool-Khyma, four of which lie sank, after taking out their
cargoes; four others he broke up for the want of men to man them, and
four he brought to Bushiro. He intended, after landing the property
which he had brought to that place, to proceed again to the southward,
to cruise between the piratical ports and Bahrein.
In 1818 Rahmah bin Jaubir proceeded to, and landed with some guns
at Katccf, which he battered, in concert with
A. D. 1818.
Ibrahim Pacha, and commenced to rebuild his
old fort at Dcmaum, which the Wahabecs had blown up in July 1816,
to which, when finished, he intended to remove from Bushire, with
his family and adherents.

CONTINUATION OF THE PRECEDING TO
THE YEAR 1831,

BY LIEUTENANT S. IIENNELL.
Mr. Warden’s Sketches conclude in 181S, by slating that Rahmah
bin Jaubir had commenced the rebuilding of his fort at Dcmaum,*
which had been destroyed by tlie Uttoobces in 1816.
From the period above mentioned the records of the Bushire Resi­
dency make no mention of this notorious person
a. d. 1819. till July 1819, when he is stated to have been at
Katcef al the time Captain Sadlicr landed there on his mission to Ibra-
Pacha, and that he rendered that officer every assistance, piloting
him
the Vestal cruiser himself into the harbour.

* A fort on a small island opposite Bahrein, and close to Katccf.

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