"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٦‎٢] (١٧٨٢/١٥١٧)

End of the
Hindiyah
rebellion,
June 1819.
Danger at
Karbala,
June 1849.
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At this juncture the Northern Shammar tribe again broke out and
pillaged the whole district lying between Samarra, Tikrit and Kirkuk
Fresh complications arose with the Bam Lam, also, after the failure of
an attempt to induce their chief, Shaikh Madhkur, trust himself i u
the hands of the Turks. The Turkish officer sent to invite him wa, one
by whose instrumentality Najib Pasha had recently procured the murder
of Safuk, the great chief of the Northern Shammar, while on safe con
duct ; and the wily greybeard of the Bani Lam evidently did not regard
the fact as a propitious omen. The attitude of the Bani Lam shortly
became a senous menace to all shipping on the Tigris : «, much so that
some Baghdad merchants trading with Basrah sent orders that a fleet of
boats which was bringing merchandise for them up the river should
wait at Azair. The Shammar Toqah too, a tribe settled on the left
bank of the Tigris a short way below Baghdad, embarked on hostilities
against the Government.
It was now ascertained that the Shaikh of the distent but very
poweiful Muntafik tribe was implicated in the Hindiyah revolt, and that
the rebels had been aided by armed contingents of the Dilaim, Dhaflr,
- aj, and Khaza'il tribes, which were in sympathy with them. The
" rmy ' ) ." 1 . m nt P resent, y became alarmed at the extent of the financial
responsibilities which the Porte, according to Najib Pasha, would con-
er h ' m to have assumed. His fears led 'Abdi Pasha to proceed in
person to the Hindiyah districts, where he issued a manifesto of a nature
to appease the tribes and held meetings with the chiefs of the HindFyah
Arabs, of the 'Afaj, and of the Khaza'il. All of the Shaikhs professed
then oyalty to the Sultan, and eventually the Commandant obtained
rom the Hindiyah chiefs a written agreement iu which they bound them-
se ves to pay the full legal assessment of their districts and £10,000 in
a i ion. Abdi Pasha s settlement was however repudiated by Najib
as ia, who had meanwhile been busily engaged in falsifying his accounts
so as 0 prove that his public expenditure equalled his receipts; an
attempt at reconciling the two offioials made by Dervish Pasha, an Ottoman
Commissioner for the delimitation of the Turko-Persian frontier, ended
in ai ure and in the accession of the mediator to the party of the Army
Commandant; and not long afterwards, probably in consequence of the
representations of Major Bawlinson as well as of his own flagrant
misconduct, Jvajib Pasha was removed from Baghdad.
, , , ' S '' m ^itary garrison at Karbala had got somewhat out of
hand dnrmg the continuance of the Hindiyah rebellion; outrages were
committed by them upon the people of the town ; and citizens and soldiers