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From that period nothing of moment happoned till the 9th when three
Choppers armed from Sohyrash with Abdul Fata Caun’s Phirmaund Command­
ing BagurCaun to restore everything ho might have taken from the inhabitants
surrender the town to Sadoon which ho was immediately to quit and repair with
the Choppars to Schyras or to stand to the consequences.
Finding the country were all up in arms and great preparations making to
attack him both by sea and land, apprehensive too that Troops and Sohyras
would soon follow the Choppars and that he should be shut up in this plaoo with
not above 600 men and no possibility of escaping but abovo all possessing that
his own people desert him if he continued much longer here, since most of their
families wero left exposed to the Arabs, were reasons that led him to restore on
quitting Bushire. The day after serving the boats ho dispatched them to one of
his two Forts near the sea laden with the spoils of the Shaiks to the valuo it was
said of 3 or 4 lacks of Rs. chiefly belonging to Shaik Nassir, having plundered
none other of the principal people—and the 11th at sun rise to the inexpres­
sible joy of the Inhabitants he peaceably decamped with his people to Tankseer
taking tho Choppars with him after some of his Rabble had broke open and
strip’d a few shops in the Bazar- -having held tho Town but 11 days.
There were we most providentially delivered from the power of a Rebel who
sure of losing his life if taken might through despair have been driven to every
act of cruelty and it can hardly be doubted but this happy escape from such
imminent danger will cause the Shaiks not only to use the necessary means for
preventing the Town being surprized in like manner in future but to render it
more secure than if this misfortune had not happened, more especially since by
the Tankseer people’s own confession they had made two such attempts in the
cold weather but returned on being assured by their spies that the inhabitants
were prepared for them and the third time when they succeeded, Reis Hamet
first sent 3 or 4 successive parties into the Town who having all informed him
the gates were open, the wall unguarded and everybody asleep, he was in the
Town before any one knew of his coming except some of his people residing
here who betrayed the place by giving notice of this carelessness and who fired
the Town the moment of bis entrance but since its restoration they have every
one turned out of it.
During Bagur Caun’s stay he forced the merchants to pay him their
J arrears of Customs amounting to 30 of 40,000 Rupees, and I was obliged to
follow their example in making him and his principal people presents to the
value of between 3 and 4,000 Rupees by his giving me to understand that he
expected it, which I hope your Honor, etc., will approve considering my per­
plexed situation. He likewise plundered and destroyed to the foundation every
house belonging to the Arabs in revenge for the hostilities committed by their
Tribe in his country, for they no sooner heard that he had fallen upon Bushire
than making Shaik Nassir’s cause their own they acrose, pillaged, laid waste,
and all in their power depopulated Tankseer and other villages under his
Government sparing neither age nor sex and continuing these barbarities
till Shaik Nassir’s arrival put a stop to them. A Camp was formed of the allies
near Tankseer which the middle of July consisted of almost 3,000 men, the
Arabs having been joined by the people of Dasliistan in general besides con­
siderable numbers from Bunderrich and Gesnowa commanded by the Meers Ally
Gunnosand Heyder.
The 12th two Bunderick Gallivats come to our assistance as did one from
Genowa the loth when Shaik Sadoon proceeded to the Camp at the solicitation