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Abdul Aziz, tho sons of Baud, had mode thoir ponce with him. Ho was
endeavouring to gain tho support of all tho members of his family. " If, he
said wo had agreed, instead of quarrelling, Katif and Haaa would not have
passed away from our possession, nor bccomo Turkish territory.”
165. It was also reported that, after his occupation of Uiadh, Abdullah
■wrote to Mazyyad, the Govornor of Hasa, professing himself to bo a Turkish
subjeot and stating that ho had not been rebellious or disaffected towards
that power, as his brothers, Saud and Abdul Rahman, had been. Mazyyad
replied that ho might bo a Turkish subject on oondition that he would opposo
Abdul Rahman bin Fcysal and Sand's children and banish them, and would
himself pay a visit to llasa. On hearing of Abdullah’s reconciliation with
his nephews, however, Mazyyad discontinued all correspondence w’ith him.
166. Abdullah was said to have writton letters to tho Pasha of Baghdad
and Nasir Pasha Montefik on his recovering power in Itiadh. An account of
the disturbances, which commenced in September 187S, among tho Montefik
Arabs and the Beni Sad, and which led to frequent piracies in tho Persian
Gulf, is given in another part of tins Precis (Piracies in tho Gulf).
167. No further nows of any importance was received regarding Nejd
affairs until December 1878 when the
Political B, January 1879, No*. 203-205.
News Agent at Bahrein reported that
Mahomed bin Saud bin Feysal and his brother Abdul Rahman with about
60 followers bad landed at Bahrein and been received by Sheikh Esau. On
hearing this the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf instructed the News
Agent to point out to Sheikh Esau the inadvisability of his receiving or coun­
tenancing persous who were lately making attempts to disturb tho territories
of a friendly power on the mainland.
168. In November 1879 the Assistant Political Agent, Basrah, received
letters from El Hasa, stating that Maho­
Procaodinga January 1880, No*. 154-165.
{ med, eldest son of the late Amir Saud
of Nejd, had some weeks before regained possession of Kharj, from which
his uncle Abdullah had expelled him and his brothers in April 1879. His
occupation, however, was of short duration, for Amir Abdullah, on returning to
Itiadh from a successful expedition against a band of the Mutair Arabs,
in which be bad been engaged, made au unexpected raid on Kharj, sur­
prised and captured his nephew, Mahomed, and conveyed him a prisoner to
Riadh.
169. In March 1880 tho Resident, Persian Gulf, reported that lie had
received intelligence of the reconciliation
Proceeding* April 1880, No. 46.
of Abdullali bin Eeysal with his nephews,
and that the Bedouins and people of central Nejd were generally united in his
favor. He had come to an understanding with Mahomed bin Rashid, the
Sheikh or Amir of Jebel Shammar.
170. In May 1880 the Political Agent, Turkish Arabia, reported that
Haji Abdul Ghanni Pasha bad left
G«u*r&l B, Jan* 1660, No. 242.
Busrah on his way to Nejd to take up his
appointment ss Governor there.

XXXVIII.—Threatened revolt of the Montefik Arabs, 1880.
171. In the same month May 1880 a report reached Bushire from Bahrein
of the imminence of risings of tho Ayab
Proceeding* Jon* 1680, No*. 103-804.
tribes of Turkish Arabia and Nejd against
the government of the Porte. Nasir Pasha Montefik, who was then at Constan­
tinople, was said to be at the bottom of the movement, and he was believed to
have invited Abdullah bin Eeysal with his nephews to attack Hasa and
Katif. With reference to this report Colonel Ross remarked—
" It ii highly improbable that Nasir Pasha would under present circumstances instigate
such a movement, and it is rnoro likely tho report of bis doing 60 is disseminated by his
enemies. That the Montefik Arabs aro in rovolt seems undoubted, and there is n widoly