"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎١‎٠‎٣] (١٧٨٢/١٢٧٤)

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between the Na'im and Dhawair o£ the Baraimi Oasis, A British offi er
also visited Baraimi. Most of these proceeding's are more fully de
scribed in the history of Trucial 'Oman.
The Egyptians continued the bullying policy of their predecessors the
Wahhabis, towards the Saiyid of Masqat; and they even used some of the
same agents for the purpose, especially Sa'ad-Bine-Mutlaq and a certain
Bin-Battal. The Saiyid was at first inclined to attach himself to the
Egyptians, through whom he hoped to obtain possession of Bahrain :
but later he adopted the views of the Government of India and conducted
his correspendence with the Egyptians according to the advice of the British
political authorities. The reconciliation between the Saiyid and his kinsman
Hamud, effected by British intervention in 1839, had reference to the
Egyptian danger; and the ruler of 'Oman, in the treaty which resulted
bound himself to assist Hamud, who was a stanch opponent of Muhammad
'Ali,against all his enemies.
Kuwait was among the more distant places to which the Egyptians,
on their arrival on the shores of the Persian Gulf, despatched emissaries ;
and the duties of the individual whom they posted to Kuwait were probab
ly political and not unconnected with a scheme for the conquest of 'Iraq,
though his ostensible employment was merely that of a purveyor to the
Egyptian forces. The Shaikh of Kuwait gave this Egyptian officer the
highest seat in all assemblies ; and his presence seems to have been the
cause of an otherwise inexplicable discourtesy offered by the Shaikh
in 1839 to the British Assistant Resident,—an incident of which the
details will be found in the history of Kuwait.
delations of
the Egyp
tians with
Kuwait.
Evacuation ofNajdand Hasa by the Egyptians, 1840.
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The uncompromising opposition of the British Government to the
more ambitious and distant designs of the Egyptians was seconded by the
difficulties in which the latter »oon found themselves involved with the
inhabitants of the countries actually in their occupation; and early in
1840 a retrograde movement of their forces commenced. The Egyptian
governor of Hasa was shot and killed by Arabs in the vicinity of Hofuf,
and it was found necessary to recall a small force which he had des
patched against the Naim of Qatar. The attitude of the 'Ajman
tribe, whose principal Shaikh had been imprisoned by the Egyptians but
contrived to escape from their custody, was bitterly hostile. Communi
cations became unsafe, and even at Tharmidah, to which place the Pasha
had now removed his headquarters, supplies could not be brought in
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