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ihe open by a simulated flight, inflicted on them a loss of 20 killed and
many wounded. The affair ended with the release of the six prisoners
and the payment of blood-money in the original ease by the Shaikh of
Umm-al-Qaiwain.
1840. On the expiration of the current Maritime Truce in the following year,
Shaikh Sultan-bin-Saqar, who was by no means satisfied with the^ blow
which his sod and ally had dealt to the Shaikh of Umm -al-Qaiwain,
made a well-organised effort to reduce that port. While he himself with
700 Bedouins invested the place by land, a fleet of 3 Baghlahs and 60
Baqarahs, commanded by Saqar-bin-Sultan and the Shaikh of Dibai and
carrying 1,500 men, proceeded to blockade it by sea ; but a tower, situated
at the entrance, prevented the boats from entering the backwater or
creek, without possession of which the blockade could not be made effective.
An entrenchment covering this tower was taken by a landing party
of the Qawasim, but they were beaten back from the tower itself with
a loss of 8 men killed and 40 wounded ; and meanwhile the Shaikh of
Abu Dhabi, with a view to relieving Umm-al-Qaiwain, had made an
attempt to surprise the town of Dibai. In these circumstances the
mediation of the British Resident was gladly accepted by the parties, and
a formal treaty of alliance and friendship was concluded on the follow
ing conditions: that Shaikh Sultan-bin-Saqar should withdraw his
demand for the destruction of a particular tower protecting the water
supph of L mm-al-Qaiwain ; that 'Abdullah-bin-Rashid should compensate
the Qasimi Shaikh for his loss in skirmishes previous to the siege j
and that no fresh fortifications should be erected by the Shaikh of Umm-
al-Qaiwain.
1841. Iu 1811, encouraged by dissensions between the Qasimi Shaikh and
his son Saqar, Shaikh 'Abdullah-bin-Rashid sounded the British
esident as to the pei missibility of resuming work on certain fortifica-
tions, left incomplete at the time of the siege, upon the sea face of
L mm al-Qaiwain; but the project was severely discouraged by the
Resident as involving a breach of the treaty mediated by himself. The
Shaikh, however, disregarding the Resident's wishes, shortly proceeded
complete the unfinished towers and even to build an additional
one for the defence of the backwater.
1842. Upon this Shaish Sultan -bin-Saqar immediately applied to the
Resident for enforcement of the treaty ; and in November 1842 the
Assistant Resident was deputed to the coast of Trucial Oman to enquire
nuo the case. The Shaikh of Umm-al -Qaiwain was unable to justify,
x ept as a precaution against treachery which he apprehended from