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It is clear that the Company's Board in London as primarily concerned to
protect its revenues. It as true the Company had retained payment of consulage in
full, hether in the Gulf or in India, but the question remained hether any harm
ould be, done to the custom revenues of Gombroon. As e have seen, the
Company's share of Gombroon customs as not fixed, enabling the servants at
Gombroon to generate anxiety about revenues ithin the Board and the presidency
and to use this against the Haalla ports.

The establishment of the persian Navy by Nadir Shah by the mid thirties had, in
fact, altered the situation in the Gulf in to ays: it had created a direct challenge, at
least in theory, to the European supremacy in the Gulf, and it shifted the political
attention of the Haalla Arabs. The peace concluded in 11 beteen the Beglairbeg,
the Governor of the 'Hot Countries' and Shaih Rashid Basidore representing the
Haalla of Lingha, Charac and Ouis, by hich the latter as granted the onership
of the Brimstone mines in return for recognising persian sovereigniy9 h‫ﺝ‬d cleared
hte obstacles in the ay of recruiting Arabs into the persian Navy three years later.
The recruitment of Arabs as seamen, and in many cases as captaing2‫ﺁ‬٤٤[little room
for English criticism of their piratical or commercial activities. There as no doubt
htat the presidency in Bombay as an‫ﺕ‬ious about the groing persian lfeet and it
as no doubt relieved to learn of the Haalla muitny ihch paralyed the lfeet in
the 14s.

From 1, and throughout the 14's, the history of the persian Navy ay

lined to the expedition to Oman. To expeditions ere launched against Oman of

ihch the first failed as a result of the brea up of the persian alliance and the

muitmn by the Haalla seamen. The Haalla sailed most of the persian ships t

‫ﺭ‬%If28 ,‫ﺝ‬ «٨uiytn lasted just under one year and thre up a serious challenge t

hte persians. It as said that the Haalla, ith 4 Dinghesy and Traneys,

intended to tae the island of ishm and blocade Gom‫ﻯ‬b,92r‫ ﻥ‬he English

servants, the Arab mutineers gave some hope that the persian lfeet ould collapse

and the need for the English Compan'ys help in shipping, though not desirable, be

again necessary Nadir Shah's reaction, hoever, as quite different. In March 18,

he ordered that 8 families of theanjan, inhabiting the area beteen Tabri and the

caspian, be settled at Kun٧‫ ﺝ‬I٤ he Saafavid had succeeded in settling the Armenians

at Julfa in the seventeenth cenutry and hence transferred their commerical activities

rfom Armeina to lnner persia, Nadir's idea for a navy ould have had a more

substanital basis. He seemed to feel that he needed a race loyal to persia inhabiting

hte sea coast and providing seamen for his navy.

In the second muitny, as mentioned earlie,r the Beglairbeg along iht English
Agent, corresponded iht the leaders of hte muitn,y hTe Agent in fact did receive a
reply rfom the Arabs of Kung agreeing to reutrn the persian ships but asing for
assurances of safeyt rfom hte companys servants.± It٤ appeared that the Beglairbeg

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