'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎59] (101/733)

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ARAB TRIBES.
protection, on the conaitlon o f assigning to Mn. one. fif t h of the valne
0f Se= tnaaetwo ^
Chief in his hereditary possessio , d atShargah)
and Shaikh Sultan, w.th ^In bin Rehma is now in charge of the
and occasionally at '"SV ^ con , oint i y with his brother Ibrahim bin
Government oi: R ^-° hat OTOtl i cr of the brothers always commands
Rehma an i i» ^ a iratical cru i s e. They arc first
cousins to Sultan bin Suggur, the iegitimate Chief of Ras-ool-Khyma.
but devoted to the ahabce j)' ' ^ jvlaskat appears to have
Next to the Wahabee power, the ^ tll0 G nlf.
contributed, by its injndicions policy, to the firs t power in that
Their history P roveS abandoned it since 1736.
quarter that prosecuted 1 ■ ) t efficient since that
Whenever the f iKOsccution of views of
period, it has engaged in p y > accomplish. With the most
ambition which it h- -ver been ab^e to a » c^ ^
powerful fleet in the G" 1 ' ^ ^ d ra0 ^ Ima P ura has b eeu unable to
internal invasion if prop y ' 1 ' Joasmecs the Joasmees have
check the depredations of the Wahabee Joasme ' ^ the rt of the
power in rim Gulf. The prosecution of ^Hither to'promote
t maum leading to combinations among the Arab States either topi
Imaum, lead n^ general warfare that invariably ensued,
in a '^'^y
As long as their power enabled them to oppose the Wahabce», they
abstained from acknowledging allegiance to them. Inevitable necessity
tte them to seek that protection : not however, ^resort to
act of piracy ; tLy did not admit and promote the P>-ted
property, until B ^r ^frirely 'disregarded. Self-
anxious to enter into with the butisli, J „„.„nnrlpvance
existence compelled them to acknowledge a power, whose piepondeia: