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General ad-
ministratiou.
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The administrative difficulties of the Sultan at Gwadar were largely
due to the difficulty of obtaining' trustworthy and capable officials in his
dominions. In 1902 the Saiyid Faisal removed Saif-bin-Sa'id from the
Wadliship of Gwadar as his conduct there was not satisfactory, but that
of his successor was worse and compelled the Sultan temporarily to reap
point the former governor. In 1903, however, the Sultan was fortunate
enough to find, in one Saif -bin-Ya'arab, a more successful and deservino-
representative.
ANNEXURE NO. 3.—HISTORY OF RUCS -AL-JIBAL.
1 he internal history of the remarkable mountainous headland of Ruus-
al-Jibal, tenanted entirely by the semi-barbarous tribes of Shihuh and
Dhahuriyin, is almost unknown. Its external history may be divided into
three periods : an early period, during which the external relations of the
district were chiefly with the Qasimi Shaikh of Sharjah; a middle period,
from 1861 to 1868, during which a British telegraph station existed in
Khor-ash-Sham or Llphinstone Inlet and direct dealings between the
Bi itish authorities and the tribesmen of the neighbourhood appear to
have been the rule; and, finally, a recent period, during which the right
of the Sultan of 'Oman to authority over the district has gradually
become clear.
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War of the
Shaikh of
Sharjah
against the
Shihuh,
1839.
Second war
of the
Shaikh of
Sharjah
against the
Shihuh,
1855-57.
Early period, 1836-1864.
^ In 1886 an admission is said to have been made to the British author
ities m the Gulf by Saiyid Sa'id of Masqat, that the Shihuh of Ruus-al-
Jibal were dependents of the £iasimi Shaikh Sultan-bin - S aqar ; but the
nbe themselves did not apparently admit their subordination to that chief
am continued to maintain a friendly intercourse with Masqat, A quarrel
subsequently arose between the Shihuh and the Shaikh of Sharjah through
the dismantlement of a Shihhi fort in the neighbourhood of Dibah by a
Qasimi official to whom it had been treacherously surrendered; and the
Shaikh of Sharjah, finding himself unable to retaliate effectively by land
upon the Shihuh, who were now raiding his territories, resolved in 1839
on a naval blockade of their whole coast, especially of Khasab and Kumzar ;
but the progress of the Egyptians in Najd, by which the Shaikh's
posijon was more vitally affected, caused him to abandon his intention
and to conclude, instead, a hasty peace with the Shihuh,
_ _ In 1855, in consequence of the murder of Mashari-bin-Ibrahim,
Uasimi gov ernor of Dibah and grandson of Shaikh Sultan-bin-Saqar,
(vT. . V 111 . ' ^ , c y whom he had attempted to tyrannise, the Shaikh of
Sharjah called his subjects of Sharjah, Khan, "Abu Hail, Fasht and
an-a > o .u ms, and ordered the majority of them to rendezvous at Ras-
ai-iviiaimah and march thence by land against Dibah; while he himself
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