"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٩‎٥‎٠] (١٧٨٢/١١٠٥)

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military headquarters of Ibrahim Pasha in Najd had begun to occur As
Khalil Ag-ha ; whose authority had been maintained only by a force of
6U Arab hirelings and was now almost gone, api>eared indisposed or
unable to make any arrangements, Captain Sadleir decided to accept
an offer of the Bani Khalid chiefs to forward him on his journey,
and accordingly left Saihat on the 2Sth of June 1819 under the
protection of Mushrif; but the conduct of the latter in the desert was
that of a barbarian who had got bis prey in his power, and determined
not to lose the opportunity lest another so favourable should not offer; "
and the behaviour of the senior Shaikh, Muhammad, who was incompetent
and very deaf, and of his brother Majid was hardly better. Captain
Sadleir did not reach Hofuf until the 11th of July; he had been dragged
m the interval on a preposterous round to the wells of Badrani, 'Aziz-al-
Ma, Mulaihah, Abwab, Umm Uubai'ah, Hafairah, 'Ain Dar and
Dumaiyagh, and to the village of 'Ayun; and in the course of his
wanderings he had suffered extreme discomfort and anxiety, and had been
obliged to submit to very unreasonable extortions on the part of the
Bedouius.
At Holuf the British envoy was well received by Muhammaa
' S 1 the J ' : gJ'l >tia " Kaehif or Governor of Jlasa, who had lately
remved orders to transfer the province to the Shaikhs of the Bani Khalid
and to rejom Ibrahim Pasha in Sadair with the Egyptian garrison ef
,, ^ J0 only about 250 men now remained, and the
ilgyptian officers whom Captain Sadleir met, worn ont with long service
m a rude and inhospitable country, were delighted at being thus recalled
o leadquarters. Muhammad Agba at first professed a strong interest in
c object of Captain Sadlier's journey and offered to take him with him
as a compamon on his own withdrawal, for which the date fixed was the
Sadie'r h U r' 0n ^ after sendill g' s «me transport to Captain
fo»! 1 1 611,1 !r y privately WitW further Captain Sadleir
on J :: t r* ^ with ^ ^
pTZ: : n ,^ T' ljef0re leav ^ the Has. district for She
Captain S ll 0 " ^ W(;llB 0f lJnim Kubai ' ah - While at Hofuf
IcuXnt !h "r 1 the iut ™ d ^ ^Pt-ns, during their
means and l "-" 1 1'" ' a '' cllfor<: ed their authority by very arbitrary
utmost impatience. eU ei>aitme wa6 a "ait«l by the inhabitants with the
atinS Jc!!T/ 0haVe ll0p6d that b y Gaining a garrison
cation with Wasa^nd t he would 1,6 able to keep up communi-
t0 a regular tribute from the Baui