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of the country. Four brothers of the deposed Amir 'Abdullah were
deported to Egypt and kept under surveillance at Cairo, one of these bein<*
Khalid; but the escape of another brother, probably Mashari, caused
much anxiety to the invaders.
Destruction Dara'iyah was first pillaged, Ibrahim Pasha reserving for himself the
etc^^^ ouee8 the A1 Sa'ud, in which it is believed but little of value was found,
while the common soldiers seized what they could lay their hands upon,
and torture was applied to persons who were suspected of concealing their
property. The complete destruction of the town and its date gardens had
been ordered from Constantinople and was eventually carried out, but
not until many of the inhabitants had been deluded into paying large sums
for personal exemption from the sentence ; when all that could be got
in this manner had been extracted, the houses were demolished, every
fragment of building timber was burned, and the palms were cut down to
the last tree. The homeless inhabitants were mostly removed by the
Egyptian commander to Hasa or themselves took refuge at Manfuhah,
where they camped in the date groves.
The fortifications of every town and village in Najd were then razed to
the ground; and the thoroughness with which this operation was carried
out is attested, in the case of Manfuhah, Riyadh, Tharmidah, Shaqrah
and 'Anaizah, by the British traveller Captain Sadleir, who passed over
the ground in 1819. Houses and date plantations were generally spared,
except at particular places such as Dara'iyah and ""Anaizah.
Occupation of An Egyptian post having been established at Sulaimiyah in Kharj,
Kharj an d Pagha passed onwards to the province of Hasa, which at this time
he seems to have intended should be the headquai'ters of his conquests.
Arrived in Hasa, he was joined by Rahmah-bin-Jabir, the famous 'Atbi
pirate of Qatar, who, after assisting the Pasha to take the town of Qatif
by bombardment, was permitted in return to establish himself at Dammam
on the Hasa coast. Ibrahim at first entertained desio-ns of further
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a o^ ress i 0n i n the direction of 'Oman, but these the natural difficulties of
his position soon compelled him to abandon.
S^'edouin^ Punitive expeditions were undertaken in all directions against the
tribes. Bedouin tribes that had helped the Wahhabis; and vengeance fell in
particular upon some of the Sabai', who were found at the wells of Rumab
in 'Urmah.
Genera] rela- Everywhere, during the occupation, the Egyptian army appear to have
Turks and llve(i 011 the worst possible terms with the people of the country, whose
Arabs. resources they consumed; and their own condition was evidently one
bordering on misery. After a two years' 8 ojourn in Najd some of the