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{instructing him to warn, the Chief of Shargah against intriguing in Masktft
atlairs. The Bombay Government approved of this measure and requested the
llesidcnt to inform Sheikh Sultan-biu-Saggar that ho would incur the severe
displeasure of the Government should he persist in fomenting dissensions in
Oman (letter No.| 44U, dated 29.th May 1857).

v(iT)—DEFEAT IN BATTLE OF JOASMI CHIEF BY THE COMBINED FOBCES OF A11U
THABI AND DEBAI. 1858.

44. Mahomed bin Thani, Chief .of Abu Heil, having conspired with his
brother to make an attack upon some
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members of the Mazari tribe, they proceeded
with a force of 150 men. and attacked a place called Khawanij, killing in the
assanlt three men, besides one of the Mazari Chiefs, called Faris Ibn Ali.
They further wounded two women, of whom one died. The booty -they realized
consisted of 30 riding camels, two horses, and a quantity of house furniture.
The marauders returned to Abu Heil .the same night.
45. When Sheikh Said-bin-Butye heard of the above, he sent word to Sheikh
Mahomed-bin-Saggar, Chief of Shargah, that a compact existed between them
•regarding their respective dependents, and that four persons, who were parties
to the compact, had been slain. Sheikh Mah<»med*bia-S<«ggar also addressed
a letter to SheiKh Sultan-biu-Saggar, who on the 9th January 1858 came over
to Shargah. Further correspondence passed between the Joasmi and Debai
Chiefs. The former, however, consented not to restore the property that had
been plundered, and tho latter, finding his mediatory efforts unsuccessful,
summoned the Bedouins to his assistance. Sheikh Zaid-biu-Khalifa of Beui-Yaa,
too sent for the Bedouins in his neighbourhood, such as those who were present
in Abu Thabi, members of the Monesin and Mazari tribes, and called upon them
to repair to Shargah overland, making Debai, however, their head*quartors.
46. In March it was reported that the Joasmi Chief had been defeated by
the combined forces from Abu Thabi and Debai. A reconciliation was, however,
subsequently effected through the mediation of the British Agent at Shargah
and the attacking forces <were withdrawn.
47. The Bombay Government regarded this intelligence as satisfactory and
expressed hope that tbe defeat which Sultan-bin-Saggar had suffered would
render Jess difficult the duty of tho Bcsident 'in restraining their Chief from
sending armed vessels and men from port to port as had been recently reported
(letter No. 1570, dated 24th June 1858).
48. The ‘following nxtract paragraph 13 from a Despatch from Her
Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, dated 31st December, No, 31 of lfi58,
to the Bombay Government on this subject m^y be read :—
" I concur with your Government in the hope that the defeat sustained by Sultan-bin-
S*ggar, Chief of Joasmi, as reported by Commander Jones, in his letter of the 25th March
1858, may restrain him from future piratical expeditions. As the belligerent tribes in aveng­
ing their comrades, who had been killed by the people of this Chief in one of their raids,
confined their operations to the land, Captain Jones exercised a sound discretion in not interfer­
ing with them.'"

(v>—CONFISCATION OF BAHREIN SHEIKH’S BUGGAL6W BY COLONEL FELLY: NO
SUCH CONFISCATIONS TO BE MADE WITHOUT PREVIOUS ORDERS OF TUE
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, 1865-1866.

49. In 1861 ’the’Chief of Bahrein having blockaded the parts of Kalif and
'Sm Bahrein Prfeia. disturbed -the peace of the Gulf, he was
Volume 06 of 1866. compelled to raise the blockade by the
British Squadron and two of his warships captured, one of them was restored
to him, and the other retained as a security for his good conduct. This second
boat was also restored .to him soon after by Colonel Felly, but again consfieated