Page 8 - The Pirate Coast (By Sir Charles Belgrave)

PLATES
Facing page
I The wall and beach near Ras al Khaima with the troops
preparing to land, November 13th 1809 4
II The troops landing at Ras al Khaima 5
III Ras al Khaima from the S.W. and the situation of
the troops 20
IV The attack on the fort at Luft, November 27th 1809 21
V The attack of the enemy’s cavalry at Shinns,
January 2nd 1810 5-
VI The storming of Shinas, January 3rd 1810 53
VII Rafaa Fort 68
VIII H.M.S. Liverpool, from a contemporary painting 69
IX A boom under construction 69
X Pearl diver 100
XI A Trucial Coast Arab 100
XII Manama 101
XIII Panellings of old Arabian design 116
XIV Arab with falcon 117
XV Sclukis 117
XVI An Arab dance 148
XVII Falcons 148
XVIII Old style Arab houses 149
XIX A pearling dhow 164
XX Gufa boats on the Tigris 164
XXI A drum, tumboora and tambourine 165
XXII Playing a tumboora 165
The first six plates arc taken from the collection of sixteen, published in
April 1813 by W. Haines, of 10 South Molton Street, London. They were
drawn by Major R. Temple of H.M. 65th Regiment, and are described on the
title page as ‘Sixteen views in the Persian Gulf taken in the years 1809-10, illus­
trative of the Forces employed on the Expedition sent from Bombay under
the command of Captain Wainwright of H.M.S. Chiffonc and Licut.-Colonel
Smith of H.M. 65th Regiment against the Arabian Pirates’, and the book is
dedicated to Licut.-Colonel L. Smith and the Officers of H.M. 65 th Regiment.
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