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260
THE IMAMS OF 'OMAN.
the raid was reported at M£skat some of Muhenna's men
would issue forth to attack them, and after a skirmish the
two parties separated. Again, detachments of Muhenna's
people would proceed as far as Riwa, and plunder whatever
they could lay hands on. When this state of things had
lasted for several days, the daughter of the Imam [Ahmed]
sent the sheikh 'Aly-bin-Fadhl, esh-Shiay, to Bedr-bin-
Seif-bin-el-Imam requesting him to come to them. 'Aly
met him at Barr-Katar, 1 and immediately on receiving the
invitation Bedr embarked in a boat with only three of his
followers and went to Maskat, where Sultan's sons and the
Imam's daughter forthwith consigned the management of
affairs into his hands. After remaining two days at Maskat
Bedr went by sea to Barkah, and took up his residence in
the fort. A few days subsequently he learnt that seven
hundred of the Benu-Riyam, under their Amir the sheikh
Nasir-bin-Muhammad, er-Riyamy, and three hundred of the
el-'Obriyym, under the sheikh Malik-bin-Rashid, el-'Obry,
had come to Nakhl, and he forthwith sent a messenger to
urge them to join him without delay. On their arrival he
got boats for them at Barkah and took them to Maskat, where
by Muhenna's orders they were encamped in the lesser
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. , their encampment extending from the Bir-el-Luluah
to the Bir-es-Sabarah.
A messenger then arrived with a letter from the Mullah-
el-Hajj, the commandant of the fort of el-Matrah, addressed
to the Seyyids, Sultan's sons, and the Imam's daughter,
apprising them that the cistern of the fort contained only a
small quantity of water, and that their supply of powder and
shot and other warlike stores was very limited; furthei',
that unless they could replenish those stores within three
days he should he obliged to surrender the fort to Kais,
whose troops were in force on his right and left, and had
besieged him, having succeeded in establishing posts from
1 See note, p. 237.

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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 The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay.

Author: Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn Ruzayq

Publication details: London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society

Physical Description: initial roman numeral pagination (i-cxxviii); with map.

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Arab.D.490
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'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.'
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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:20, 1:128, 1:436, 1:8, iv-r:vi-v, back-i
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Ḥamīd ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ruzayq xx Salil ibn Razik
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