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and mislead that ovonveoning ruler. Steps taken by the British Uc6idont
at Baghdad resulted, howover, in the discontinuance of the correspond­
ence, on which the offending’ Persian functionary pretended that hr
bad ontcrcd in ignorance of its impropriety.
The strugglo between the chiefs was at length brought to an end by
the death of Shaikh ’Abdulluh-bin-Ahnmd, apparently in 1849. This 18-19.
event took plaeoat Masqat, in the course of a voyage undertaken by the
cx-Shnikh with the object of persuading his former enemy, Saiyid Sa'id,
then at Zanzibar, to assist him in recovering his ancestral dominions.

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