'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎344r] (714/1904)

memorandum
showing the connection of the
Jowaslm Clan , the Ruling Chief
el thargah ai^d Shaikh Saliis bin
Sultan , reepoctively , with Abu
Musa Island, as indicated by the
Archives of the Bushire 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.
More than a century and a half ago the Chiefs
of the Jowasim Clan of Arabs, at that time paramount
in authority on what was known as the "Pirate Coast"
of Oaan, with headquarters at Rae-el-Khaiua and
Shargahjcrossed over to the Persian Coast with their
war craft and captured the port of Lingah and other
places on the Coast. There they remained in occupa
tion for upwards of a century, one of the Ruling
family from Ras-el-Khaina, acting as Chief of the
branch of the tribe which remained on the Persian
Coastj having its seat of government at Lingah, but
remaining subject to the overlordship of the Ruling
Chief of the headquarters of the tribe, then at Ras-
el -Khaima.
At that time as now practically all the Islands
in the Gulf were permanently or at certain seasons
tenanted by Arab tribes; and several of them,includ
ing Abu Musa,by the Jowasim. In the pearling season
the tribal fishing boats would have recourse to these
islands for water or for refuge from stress of wea
ther? in the spring, after rain, the various Shaikhs
would send their horses and flocks for grazing^and
in the winter parties of their subjects habitually
sojourned in the islands for fishing purposes.
Time went on and the sections of the Jowasim on the
Persian Coast after some generations became as it
were permanent settlers there and quarrels began to
arise between parties of them and their kinsmen from
Oman