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was held at that place between Colonel Pelly and the naval commander,
At this juncture an attack was made by a Wahhabi force on Saham
m Batmah, and the British Indian traders residing there were driven
into the sea, one of them being drowned. The result of Colonel
Pelly and Captain Pasley's deliberations was a demand made by letter
on the Wahhabi Amir for a written apology in regard to the Sur affair,
for a written assurance that in future such outrages would be prevented,
and for payment of compensation, to the extent of 127,000, on account
of property lost or destroyed; and it was added that, if in seventeen
days from the delivery of the letter to the Wahhabi Governor of Qatif
the required satisfaction had not been afforded, the Wahhabi forts
on the seaboard would be destroyed, and the craft in their harbours
confiscated. Colonel Pelly was prevented, by the necessity of sustaining
with his presence the courage of the Sultan of 'Oman, who was to
make an attack on the Wahhabi post at Baraimi, from himself accom-
panying Captain Pasley; but he sent instead the Residency Agent at
Sharjah, who was landed in Bahrain on the 13th of January 18G6 as
bearer of the letter for the Wahhabi Amir. The « Highflyer" left
Bahrain on the same day for Abu Dhabi and thence cruised along the
Trucial Coast, destroying on the way a Qasimi tower which had been
erected, in the Wahhabi interest, on the insulated tract of Zora. On
the 33rd of January Colonel Pelly and Captain Pasley met again in
Elphinstone Inlet, where a British telegraph station then existed and
a rendezvous had been arranged.
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The " Highflyer " left again on the 28th of January for Qatif, where British naval
she arrived on the 30th, and where Captain Pasley learned from the Resi- 0 P er ?tions on
the
dency Agent that no reply had as yet arrived from the Amir, and that the coast and
Wahhabi Governor of Qatif was asking for a respite of twelve days to Dammam 0 " 3
allow of his communicating with Riyadh. Captain Pasley waited until
the 2nd of February and then, the period of grace having expired,
proceeded to carry out the threats conveyed in the ultimatum by sending
armed boats to Qatif under Lieutenant Fellowes ; these demolished the
island fort of Abul Lif and destroyed a single Wahhabi vessel which was
found in the harbour and was not worth removing. On the frd of Febru
ary a party under Lieutenant Long was despatched against the Dammam
fort, which, according to the information of the Residency Agent, was held
by a garrison of only twelve men ; but the boats, on account of the shallow
ness of the water, could not approach within 200 yards of the beach. The
party waded ashore and the outworks of the fort were taken, but the
garrison was muoh larger than had been represented, and the assault was
eventually repulsed with a loss of three men killed and two officers and
80 a
February
1866.