"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٦‎٨‎١] (١٧٨٢/٨٢٤)

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scuttled and sunk. Shaikh Sultan-bin-Saqar, alarmed at the view of
the case taken by the British authorities, despatched a Baghlah in
pursuit of the pirate Batil, which was eventually forced on shore near
Ijinfeh; the majority of the buccaneers were captured and taken to
Ras-al-Khaimah, where they were imprisoned for several months; and
the Batil and the stolen property recovered were delivered up to the
Saiyid of 'Oman. Muslim-bin-Rashid seems to have been subsequently
strangled by order of Sultan-bin-Saqar, whom, if rumour may be
trasted, he accused of being himself the instigator of the crime.
In 1829 the British merchant ship a Sunbury" was somewhat
unceremoniously handled at Sharjah in consequence of a belief, not
unfounded, that she carried supplies for the hostile port of Abu Dhabi.
The car^o for Abu Dhabi having been resold by the agent of the
owner to the Shaikh of Sharjah without the knowledge of the captain
of the ship, several boatfuls of men boarded the " Suubury in a very
insolent manner to take delivery; an attempt was made to haul down
the British flag ; and the mate, in resisting it, was struck with some
violence by one of the Arabs. The incident was quickly terminated on
the arrival of the "Amherst" sloop-of-war. Shaikh Sultan, after pro
testing his ignorance of the affair, caused the tirst boat that hat.
boarded the " Sunbury " to be burnt, while the chief aggressor in the
matter of the colours w 7 as tied up and flogged by his ordeis.
In 1831, a number of places on the Persian Coast having been
deserted by their inhabitants in consequence of the plague then lading,
some Qavvasim on their way home from Basrah seized tlu opportunity
to plunder Dilam and Rig, which were among the number, and furthe
down the coast they took possession of a boat returning fiom Kangun
to Bushehr.
These excesses appear to have been ignored; but when the SI
of 'Ajman, being openly at war with the people of Soliar as a n
consequence of his coalition with Saiyid Said against them m
extended his depredations to the shipping and commerce of the man
Sultanate to which Sohar had now ceased to belong, steps were
immediately taken to call him to account : this, however, was no
done until his captures at sea amounted to more than a oze ^
with their cargoes. Sultan-bin-Saqar having found it convenien
deny that he any longer possessed authority over Ajman o .
QaiU an ultimatum was conveyed direet to Shaikh Ba.lud of Ajmau
by two British vessels of war ; and his efforts at evasion eing ™
by a refusal to allow him more than 24 hours grace, t ie
Case ot the
" Sunbury,"
1829.
Further
petty
piracies,
1831-34.
1832.