"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٧‎٢‎٢] (١٧٨٢/٨٦٥)

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his sovereioTi, the Sultan of 'Oman, was blown from a gun at Masqat on
the :Jlst of May 18C0. In 1859 the surrender of seven Sharjah boats
which had been guilty of piratical acts^ apparently upon the Persian
coast, was obtained by Commodore Jenkins, T.N., at 48 hours'notice;
but the particulars of this case are not ascertainable.
In 1860 the Shaikh of Hamriyah, after having in the previous year
been obliged to pay up a small sum on account of a robbery committed
at sea on board a vessel belonging to his port, was so ill-advised as to
move by water to the assistance of his suzerain, the Shaikh of Sharjah,
who was engaged in coercing some rebellious subjects at Khan and
Abu Hail : this thoughtless act cost him If! 250.
Two cases which occurred at Bakhah in 1859 or 1860 may, though
they belong properly to the Ruus-al-Jibal district, be mentioned
here as constituting breaches of maritime order on the coast immedi
ately adjoining Trucial ^Oman; in the first a fugitive from Sha'am,
at the instigation of the Shaikh of Bakhah, stole a Baqarah and some
fishing nets from Sha'am and brought them to Bakhah, and in the
second a shipwrecked crew, cast ashore at Bakhah, were robbed by the
Shaikh of their few remaining effects. In each case the Shaikh, though
he vas not a signatory of any truce or peace and would at the present day
be regarded as a dependent of the Sultan of Masqat, was called upon to
pay a fine of $100, Payment of the first fine was refused by him to
Lieutenant Dyer of the brigantine " Tigris •/' but the arrival of Commodore
Balfour on the 151h of February 1860 with the steam frigate " Semiramis "
and the " Elphinstone " produced a satisfactory settlement, to which
was annexed a warning to the Shaikh to be "careful how he ever again
refused any demand made on him by the Captain of one of Her Majesty's
Indian Navy vessels."
In January 1860 the " Fath-al-Khair of Lingeh, in endeavouring to
enter the harbour of Ras-al-Khaimah during a storm, ran aground and
was at once surrounded, with felonious intent, by 15 or 20 armed boats
commanded by Shaikh Ibrahim, a son of the Qasimi Shaikh and Deputy-
Governor of the town. The unfortunate vessel, after being pillaged
and wilfully damaged, was allowed to go, and made the best of her way
to the Persian coast, where the owner found an effective advocate in Com
mander Balfour ; for that officer, after due enquiry through a subordinate
and a short correspondence with Shaikh SultSn-bin-Saqar, who merely
ordered his son to afford redress, himself proceeded to Ras-al -Khaimah.
Shaikh Ibrahim had recourse to subterfuges, but they were cut short by
the entry of eleven armed boats into the harbour, which took six vessels