"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٧‎٣‎٥] (١٧٨٢/٨٧٨)

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several persons and carrying off with them 25 slaves besides other booty :
the headman of Hamryah, however, defended himself in his fort and
escaped capture. To avenge this injury to his ally, the Shaikh of Dibai
mustered a force of 35 horsemen and 400 camel-riders and marched against
Umm-al-Qaiwain; but the excesses of the headman of Hamriyah so
displeased him that he soon returned home. In September a dispute
about divers arose between Sharjah and 'Ajman, which, had the Residency
Agent not mediated, would probably have led to a renewal of hostilities
between those two.
In 1887 several robberies w r ere committed by Bedouin Manasir on boats 1887.
anchored in creeks to the north of Abu Dhabi town, subjects of Sharjah
and Ras-al-Khaimah being among the sufferers. As the robbers had
swum off from the land these cases could not be treated as infractions
of the maritime peace; and, as it did not appear that the Shaikh of
Abu Dhabi could fairly be held responsible for the misdeeds of a lawless
and wandering tribe, the British authorities did not do more than appeal
to his honour and sense of justice. In September a band of Manasir
marauders made a successful raid so far to the north as Sharjah, from
which place they carried off eight women and children and several
camels and horses.
In 1888 a feud prevailed between the people of Ras-al-Khaimah and 1888-89.
the Shihuh tribe; several townsmen were murdered in outlying date
plantations; and 200 palms were destroyed by Bedouins at the village of
Khatt in Jiri.
A coalition, as already mentioned above in connection with Wahhabi
affairs, took place in 1888 between the Shaikhs of Abu Dhabi and
Dibai, whom the supposed Wahhabi danger had found bitterly at
variance, and about the same time the Shaikh of Dibai effected a
reconciliation between the Shaikh of Sharjah on the one hand and the
Shaikh of 'Ajman and the headman of Hamriyah on the other; his
object appears to have been to set the people of ^Ajman and Hamriyah
at liberty to assist Dibai in case that principality should be called upon
to withstand a Wahhabi attack. The coalition, however, between the
Hinawi Shaikhs of Abu Dhabi and Dibai soon provoked a counter-
alliance between the Shaikhs of Sharjah and Ras -al-Khaimah; and the
Shaikhs of Umm-al-Qaiwain and 'Ajman, after endeavouring for a time
to hold aloof, threw in their lot with the northern combination, which
thus became a federation of all the Ghafiris.
In February 1890 active trouble broke out between the principalities
of Sharjah and Dibai, in consequence of redress being refused foi the
1890.