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297 See above, p. 38
298 Miles, Countries and Tribes, p. 290.
299 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. l,p. 1007.
300 However Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p. 1073, slates that the ‘Utiib of al-Kuwayt withheld the
tribute in 1808, and that the Su'udis had to send a force to take over the town but failed.
301 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p. 1007.
302 Aitchison, A Collection, p. 20.
303 Ibid.
304 i.c., Miles in Countries and Tribes, Wilson in The Persian Gulf, and Lorimer in Gazetteer.
305 Sec Memorial of the Government ofSaudi Arabia, vol. l,pp. 111-112.
306 Lam' al-Shihab, p. 79.
307 Ibid.
308 Ibid.
309 Saudi Arabia, Memorial of the Government of Saudi Arabia, vol. 1, p. 112.
310 Ibid.
311 H. H. Whitelock, “An Account of Arabs Who Inhabit the Coast Between Ra’s El-Khcimah
and Aboothubcc” in Memoirs, Analyses, Annual Report for 1835-1836, p. 46.
312 Lam‘ al-Shihab, p. 80.
313 Ibid.
314 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p. 424.
315 Ibid.
316 Lam' al-Shihab, p. 76.
317 Ibid.
318 Ibid.
319 J. S. Buckingham, Travels, vol. 2, p. 212.
320 Niebuhr describes the inhabitants of the coast as being “presque tous sectateurs d’Hanbal”;
see Description, vol. 2, p. 159.
321 Lam' al-Shihab, p. 77.
322 sec Kelly, Britain, p. 111.
323 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p. 635.
324 H. Moyse-Bartlett, The Pirates of the Trucial Coast (London: MacDonald, 1966), p. 30.
325 See Warden, “Historical Sketch”, p. 303.
326 Dubuisson, “QasimIPiracy”, p. 27.
327 Kelly, Britain, p. 106.
328 Aitchison, A Collection of Treaties, vol. 2, pp. 239-40.
329 Warden, “Historical Sketch”, p. 304.
330 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p. 441.
331 Ibid.
332 Miles, “Biographical Sketch of the late Seyyid Saeed” in Annual Administration Reports,
1883-1884, p. 21.
333 Lam' al-Shihab, p. 76.
334 Warden, “Historical Sketch”, p. 304.
335 Ibid.
336 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p.464.
337 Ibid. $MT, the Maria Theresa Thaler, a large silver coin called riyal in Arabia and used widely
until recently.
338 Kelly,Britain, p. 111.
339 See Wellsted, City of the Caliphs, vol. 1, p. 101.
340 See Kelly, Britain, p. 123.
341 Lorimer, Gazetteer, vol. 1, p. 643; Buckinham, Travels, vol. 2, p. 248, attributes the
increasing boldness of the Qawasim to their earlier successful attacks on British ships.

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