'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.' [‎94] (127/612)

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introduction
posed to establish a factory An East India Company trading post. , making it as a fort, I have no ob
jection to their fortfying the same, and mounting guns thereon,
as many as they list, and to forty or fifty English gentlemen
residing there, with seven or eight hundred English sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. ."
About this period, moreover, permission was accorded by the
Seyyid Sultan for the establishment of a British naval station
at Basidu, (Bassadore), on the island of el-Kishm, which has
existed there, with the sanction of the rulers of 'Oman, ever
since.
Such having been the position held by the Omanis within
the limits of the ancient feof, the sudden and forcible resump
tion of their supremacy over it by the Persians was not un
reasonably regarded by the Seyyid Said as an unwarrantable
act of aggression, and preparations were accordingly made
to resist it. An expedition dispatched under the command
of the Seyyid Thuwainy succeeded in recapturing Bunder-el-
'Abbas, Minau, Semil and other places; but the Persians
receiving large reinforcements from the interior, while the
Arab allies of the Seyyid on the opposite coast were pre
vented from joining him by an arbitrary abuse of the inter
dict placed by the British Government upon all armed move
ments by sea on the part of the petty chiefs occupying the
littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the Seyyid was obliged to give
way, and to make the best terms he could with the victors.
Our author states that by the treaty of peace which was sub
sequently concluded between the two parties, " the Persians
were to restore to the Seyyid Said all the posts which he had
previously heldbut ho omits to record upon what condi
tions. Those conditions, as will be seen from the abstract of
the treaty given below, 1 were most disadvantageous to the
• The following summary of the stipulations of this Treaty, which is
dated 11 in the month of Sha'aMn, a.h . 1272," [April, 1856], is compiled
from an Arabic version handed to the Editor by the Seyyid Thuwainy,
in 1861:—
" Bunder-el-'Abbas and its dependencies, also the two maritime