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2. —Afoghoo, the inhabitants of tho tribe of the Beni Kemand and situated otherwise
liUo those of Slicnas.
3. —Charach, tho inhabitants of tho tribe of the Beni Kemand and situated otherwise
like those of Shenas.
4. —Nakheloo, tho inhabitants after the death of th»*ir former Chief (Sbcik Rohma who
seized several years ago on tho Uector and her cargo* put themselves under
tho protection of Aberrohman (tho son of Allack the Chief of Nabund) who
was iu connection with tho Joasmee pirates and himself also ono, but has died
within theeo few mouths nftor separatiug himself from tho Joasmees, sinco
which tho inhabitants have been unfitted. Tbo town or h^ad place of
Nukheloo being occupied by fclio son of the lato Sheikh Rohma, under tho
general protection (which on account of his own weakness and want of power he
solicits) of Sheikh Iabara tho 6on of Sheik Mahomed the Uuler of Kungoon,
and partly also of tho surviving brother of tho late Abcrrohman tho 6on of the
Into Allack ; now Sheikh Iabara is at prefont in amity with the Irnaurn of Muscat
whilst tho brother and present Representative of the Allack family is indepen­
dent, being connected neither with tho Joasmces nor with the aforesaid lmaum;
With respeot to Khore Hussan on the Arabian Coast, it appears by the same information
to havo been held by Jubir of tho Julahimu tribe of Utoobo.-s who had two sons, the cider
Ubdoolla aud tho younger Rultman. After the death of their father these two brothers iled
from fear of the other Utoobces and took up their residence for some time ut Bushire and
Chnrack, after which they returned to Khore Husson and betook themselves to piiacy pending
which occupation (some particulars of which nro adverted to in tho 7th and 33rd paragraphs of
tbo summary of the late Captain Scton's correspondence recorded on the 24th of June last),
Ruhman the younger brother obtained the ascendancy and continues in tho commission of
piracy, having reccutly captured, ns is said, twenty Utoobces Botollas on their voyage from
Grain to Muscat and killed the person in charge of them, the son of Ubdoollah ben Subbah
tbo Chieftain of Grain, who has long been on terms of amity with the Euglish and is now
reported to have fiited out a marine expedition against Khore Husson in the view ot reprisals;
meanwhile the elder biother Ubdoolla has resorted to and sought the protection of the Itnaum
of Muscat, soliciting that Chieftain's interference to procure an equipment from Muscat,
which in conjunction with the British armament may enable him to recover his influence at
Khoio HU660Q.
Luff was in the hands of the Joasmees of Rasul Khirna, during the period of Moola
Ubdalla's being detained as a prisoner at Muscat. Ubdalla fled from thence on the 20th of
Shaban answering to about the 1st of October, in breach of his engagements and oath to tho
Imaura and arriving at Luft in ten days, the Joasmces allowed him to reinstate himself from
about the 1st of Kurazun or about the 11th of October; since hia reinstatement Moola Ubdalla
remained (according to Sycd Tuckey’s information) in amity and connection with his friends
tho Joasmees as aforesaid, being also related by affinity to Sugger the Chieftain of Basul
Khima.
131-A. There was then the question of conducting operations against
Sheikh Rahma of Khor Hassan. The Resident at Bushire wa9 for destroying
the maritime equipment of this Chieftain, but the Bombay Government did not
wish this, and .their final decision was conveyed in the following letter to
Mr. N. H. Smith, Resident at Bushire, dated 10th February 1810:—
1. I am directed by the Hon'ble the Governor in Council to acknowledge the receipt of Selection
your dispatches marked in the margin advising of tho measures which you intended to pursue No. 71 of 1805-
for the purpose of destroying tho martimo equipment of Sheikh Rohma at Khor Hussan. 1810, pp. 63*56.
2. Concluding that under tho course of communication between General Malcolm and
yourself and Colonel Smith you could scarcely be unaware of the singlo condition on which the
Governor in Council had acquiesced in an oventual attack on Rehrna, tho Chieftain of the
Port in question or of the last mentioned officer and Captain Wainwright’s having with tho
latitude conveyed in their instructions deemed it in concurrence with the opinion also of
General Malcolm not only unnecessary but impolitic to proceed aggressively against the port
in question, tho Governor in Council cannot approve of your having taken up on you to set on
foot an expedition thither on principles exceeding tho degree of discretion vested for that
purpose in tho Commandant of tho expedition such as for your fuller information in the
possible event of your being unacquainted therewith, is herewith made known to you in the
accompanying copy of tho letter to those officers from the Chief Secretary of tho 6th of
January last, to the tenor of which it is accosdingly still the wish of Government that you
should adhere as nearly as may be practicable consistently with the state of circumstances at
the period of your receipt of this communication especially in the case of a man (such as
Rohma) who instead of hostility has shewn in tho remarkable instance of his forbearance
towards the Augusta, Cruizcr when in the power of his fleet a marked desire to maintain
towards us the most unexceptionable neutrality.
3. An additional motive for desiring to avoid hostility with Rahma is from the knowledge
acquired by Government through native channels that ho has recently entered into strict
connection with tho Wahabee and has in conjunction with that power (which it has all along
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