'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎473] (515/733)

BENIYAS. 473
carried away three hundred head of cattle. Encouraged by his
success, he made several other incursions into the interior, killing and
plundering wherever he went. These vigorous measures alarmed
the Bedouins, who thenceforward refused to give any further assistance
to the Debaye people.
Ihe explanation afforded by the Beniyas Shaikhs, for the plunder of
the Muskat vessel before mentioned, having been accepted by the
authorities of that place, (who, since the occurrence, had made the
former a present, with the desire, probably, of conciliating them, as a
counterpoise to the Joasmees,) rendered the interference of the Resident
uncalled for.
Peace was shortly after concluded between the contending narties
through the mediation of the Shaikh of Lingah, but it was destined noi
to be of very long duration. A successful predatory inroad into the
Joasmee territories by the Monasir, a Bedouin Tribe closely connected
with Aboothabee, and the capture in retaliation of ten Beniyas nearl
boats, carrying about eighty men, and pearls worth 4,000 dollars on
t e anks, by the Boo Felasa of Debaye, led to the renewal of hostilities
Bo h parties having been necessarily obliged to withdraw their sub-
jects from the banks, to avoid the effect of reprisals on the one side
and of further aggressions on the other, apprehensions of future distress
were raised, by their being thus deprived of their share of the produce
of the annual pearl fishery, forming the chief source of subsistence to
e Maritime Arabs of the Gulf, as being almost the only means thev
possess of gaining a livelihood. Moved by the earnest solicitations
therefore, of his dependents. Shaikh Khaleefa sent his father 7^1,
boot) to Shargah, who succeeded in concluding a peace with Suit V "
in Suggur ; one of the conditions being that the Boo Felasa the
" — in Deba - shouid ^
While the people of Debaye, about the middle of 1834, evincing
a. d. 1834, a piratical spirit, were making depredations upon
formerly from EJman, reMdtraTVlt
Mootansh Buteel from Muttra, and plundered her of proVe^t'rtotl a
amount of 1,000 dollars; fortunately no lives were ^ 8^
demands onhfEts^em^milhe'w^ "T**' ^ COmpIiance with 'he
of vessels of war off ^
.he pjof i,se,fon
individual vessels for which «n' f " ocasional plunder of
always, however, 'been exacted, now^oTe Tut