'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.' [‎88] (249/612)

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the imams of ^oman.
'Oman, and he successfully assaulted ed-Diyul, and Daman,
and Killabuli, and 'Akkah, 1 and many other towns and vil
lages of the polytheists, so that the latter were in great
dread of him, and their incursions upon 'Oman were re
pressed, and all aid given by them to the enemy was cut
off. The booty taken from the polytheists was very great.
Then the Imam commenced building the renowned fort
at Nezwa, which was completed in twelve years and cost
1 By " ed-I)iyul" there can be no doubt that the island of Diu, in the
province of Gnzerat, is intended. Hamilton gives the following details
of the attack upon that place by the 'Omanis at this period :—" About
the year 1670 the Muscat Arabs came with a fleet of trankies, and took
an opportunity to land in the night, on the west end of the island, with
out being discovered, and marched silently close up to the town, and at
break of day, when the gates were opened, they entered without resist
ance. The alarm was soon spread over the town, and happy was he
who got first to the castle-gates, but those who had heavy heels were
sacrificed to the enemy's fury, who spared none; so in a moment that
fair city, and churches, were left to the mercy of the Arabs, who for
three days loaded their vessels with rich plunder, and mounted some
cannon in a beautiful church and fired at the fort, but to little purpose.
The governor, who was in the castle, could soon have obliged them to
move farther off the castle by the force of his heavy cannon, yet the
priesthood forbid him firing at the church on pain of excommunication,
lest some unlucky shot should sacrilegiously have defaced some holy
image. But the Arabs, like a parcel of unsanctified rogues, made sad
havoc on the churches' trumpery, for besides robbing them of all the
sanctified plate and cash, they did not leave one gold or silver image
behind them, but carried all into dismal captivity, from whence they
never returned that I could hear of. And as for the poor images of
wood and stone, they were so rudely treated by those barbarous infidels,
that they came well off if they lost but a limb, and I saw some who lost
their heads," Pinkertoris Voyages, vol. viii. p. 312,
Ddman is in all probability the town of the same name, situated on
the coast of the Northern Concan, and still held by the Portuguese,
Killabuh, Niebuhr's " Kalboo" and the " Khulboo" of our charts, is
a small town situated in a cove formed by the north-east point of the
Riyam cove and Ras Maskat. The Portuguese appear to have kept
possession of it for some time after their expulsion from Maskat and el-
M&trah. As the place is destitute of fortifications they probably held it
with their ships.
'Akkah ; I am unable to identify this place.