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was that tho disorders in Basrah and Nojd would not cease until Nasir Pasha,
the Sheikh of tho Monte file, was reinstated in his position as Governor, as ho
and his tribesmen subdued 331-IIasa before.
321-. Tho correspondence shows that the frequent piracies which took
place about this time were due in a great measure to the disturbances which
commenced in September IS78 among the Montefik Arabs and the Beni Sad.
325. On the 27th September 1878, Colonel Nixon reported to Her
Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople
Political A, January, 1879 No. 2SG-
that disturbances had taken place amongst
the Montefik Arabs around Goornah, and that the gunboats Ncjcl and Iskan-
deriah had been despatched to the spot. Tho cause of the disturbances was
the general unpopularity of the Sheikhs whom Abdullah Pasha, the Governor-
Generei of Basrah, had appointed to collect the Revenue. Colonel Nixon,
remarked that ever since Nasir Pasha had been superseded there had been
continual disorder in Basrah.
326. In October 1878, Colonel Nixon reported that the Montefik had
quieted down owing to the orders issued
Political A, January 1S79, No. 293.
from Constantinople to Abdullah Pasha
to leave matters in the hands of Fahad Pasha, the nephew of Nasir Pasha,
the late Governor-General.
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