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utter disgrace from an impossible enterprise; and Captain Kembail, while absolutely
declining to guarantee any settlement that might be arranged, undertook the office
of mediator. The headman of Hamrlyah and the Shwaihiyin refugees, emboldened
by their successful defence and instigated by the Shaikh of Umm-al-Qaiwain, would
not at first listen to any proposals; but eventually, on the Resident threatening a
strict enforcement of the maritime peace, whereby apparently their supplies would
have been altogether cut off, it was settled that $500 should be paid by the rebels
to the Shaikh of Sharjah in token of submission, and that, on the conclusion of
the pearl season, the Shwaihiyin should quit Hamrlyah and settle wherever else
they pleased. The Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent, Haji Ya'qub, was sent on shore to witness
the formal submission of the rebels to the Shaikh; and the H. E. 1. Company's
schooner " Constance " remained at the place for a few days longer until the
besiegers had broken up their camp and retired. From the predominance in
Sharjab ;own at the present day of the Shwaihiyin tribe it would seem that Shaikh
Sultan must eventually have succeeded in persuading the malcontents to return
there.
In 1860, and probably for some time before, Ras-al-Khaimah was ruled by
Ibrahim-bin-Sultan, the son of Shaikh Sultan-bin-Saqar by a wife of the MarazTq or
Marzuqi tribe; and in 1855 Mashari, a son of Ibrahim, had been appointed sub-
governor of Dibah, and had been murdered there by tribesmen of the Shihuh.
When Shaikh Sultan died, in 1866, Ibrahim still held charge of Ras-al-Khaimah.
On the death of 'Abdullah-bin-Sultan in the operations at Hamrlyah in 1855,
the administration of Sharjah town seems to have been assumed by Muhammad-
bin-Saqar, a grandson of Shaikh Sultan; but intrigues for the removal of this
young man were shortly commenced by Khalid-bin-Sultan, one of his uncles. The
aged Qasimi Shaikh who had at last fallen into his dotage and lost both memory and
hearing, seems now to have counted for little in the disputes among his unruly
progeny. About 1859, Shaikh Khalid having formed a strong party in Sharjah, the
town was for a time divided between him and Shaikh Muhammad, each presiding
over his own adherents; but such a state of matters could not long endure, and, at
the end of 1860 or beginning of 1861, Shaikh Khalid, having "decoyed Shaikh
Muhammad to a distance from Sharjah in the course of a morning ride, suddenly
shot him with his own hand and threw his body into a well. Shortly afterwards,
on Captain Felix Jones paying a visit to the coast, Shaikh Khalid sought an
interview with him; but it was refused on the ground that the Resident could not
hold converse with " one so recently and so fearfully polluted."
Early in 1860 the Shaikh of Sharjah, by which term must be understood at
this time either Shaikh Muhammad or Shaikh Khalid, called upon the headman of
Hamriyah to assist him in a land attack in which he was engaged upon the villages,
then disaffected, of Khan and Abu Hail. 'Abdur Rahman-bin-Saif was rash enough
to respond by proceeding to the scene of hostilities by sea with armed men and
munitions of war and was fined $250 by order of the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. . This sum
he duly disbursed on a demand for payment being preferred by Commander
Cruttenden.
Governors
of Ras-al-
Khaimah and
Sharjah, 1855
to 1866.
Co-operation
of the head
man of
Ramriyah
with the
Shaikh of
Sharjah,
1860.
Shaikh Khalid-bin-Sultan, 1866-1868.
On the death of his father Shaikh Sultan in 1866 at the ripe age of over 80 Khaim'ah
years. Shaikh Khalid, the murderer of his own nephew Muhammad, succeeded to separated
the Shaikhdom of Sharjah, while Ibrahim-bin-Sultan proclaimed his independence from, and
at Ras-al-Khaimah. In May 1867, however, Shaikh Khalid made a successful a g ain re -.
attack on Ras-al-Khaimah, expelling Ibrahim and re-incorporating the town united with
and its dependencies with the principality governed from Sharjah. In 1868, 1866 to'1867
as explained in the history of Trucial 'Oman, Shaikh Khalid died of a wound
received in single combat with the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi: he expired on the 14th of
April.
Shaikh Salini-bin-Sultan, 1868-1883.
The place of the deceased Shaikh Khalid, whose mother was a Qasimi, was Separation
taken by Shaikh Salim, the son by a slave woman of Shaikh Sultan; and the once more
administration of Ras-al-Khaimah was at the same time conferred on, or assumed
by. Shaikh Salim's nephew Hamaid-bin-Abdullah, who in 1869 proclaimed himself from "sharjah
independent of Sharjah and so remained until the end of his days. 1869.
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