Political No. 142 of 1874, Forwarding a Copy of Papers Regarding the ‘Piratical Proceedings’ of ‘a Party of Arabs’ at Hillaneeah, One of the Kooira Mooria Islands [‎67v] (28/44)

Piratical proceedings of a party of Arabs at the Kooria Mooria Islands.
Jws distant from the coast. The Shorees standing- on the shore said that two
ol us should go to them, or they would shoot us with their guns. Being afraid
on hearing this I and the tindal Non-European boatswain or head of a group of labourers. of the other vessel with two sailors, in all four
peisons, returned to the shore, the rest of the sailors went to their respective
vessels by swimming; the Bukeer not being a swimmer was standing on the
shore. On our going to them they surrounded us, some of them saying kill them
others that we should first he killed and then the vessels be plundered. I and
my companions replied that they might kill or save us as they pleased, when
they stripped us of our clothes, kept us under a guard of twenty-five men quite
naked the rest of them attempted to go on board the vessels in our boat
v en f ° fV ? er “ mu11 ves f 1 eu t 0® the anchor ropes of their vessel
and took it out of the harbour, and my men also did the same. Then thev
emg unable to reach the vessels with boats returned, some of them said to hill
us, while the others said to recover some dollars from us. We renlied we
had no dollars, and they asked for 1,000 dollars for each vessel, i e., 2,000
and tW if +1 1 repl m d ^ the sallors had at most 5 or 10 dollars,
and that if they would send a man of theirs with me, I would collect
and give that to him. At last they came down to 300 dollars and told
no to send one of my men to bring the amount as well as the vessels. I replied
tWh WaS f Cluef • 0f my Tesse1, and consequently I and one of the men of
had loft 7 e +f 1 T 1 ’ 0 S1Yen P ermissl0n - We went in my boat to the vessel. We
ao-lcts and one n°ncir e five cookin S P ots ( de § s )> four leather water
fKnrnneei nf H,e v 1 ’ of „ boat - . y 111 ® we reached our vessel I told the Mate
men cordd L t Veera “ u11 TifV? take tlle ves sel in the harbour that the
men could get leave He said that he would not go, for if he do, the robbers
sayino- helaiSTC A P llmd( f. 1 tlle vessel they would go to Aden for redress, so
° 10 saiicc \ fol Aden, while we sailed for Kutch. Bive boats laden with the
was re onl?Tr d U r f r , a r h0le ? ay and ni S ht ’ but could not overtake US Thm-I
veturned' y ?, h - 0t dlstance between us. Proceeding for about 50 /ms they
and this manner a passenger Pukeer of our vessel and the tindal Non-European boatswain or head of a group of labourers.
and a sailoi 0 f the other, m all three men, remained there. When I was soim-
on hoard the vessel to tetch the dollars I asked them to allow the Fukeer to
accompany me but they would not do so. As I had no cloth to covm- mvself
not strinned af 1 h^Hofl 6 a P u C ? Wl j, icb 1 r ra PP ed round me. The Fukeer was
17 davs P wi ho!d h w„t! 1 i' r®™ 8 tbuS dlstressed we "rived at Mandvie after
w , out water and living on parched jowaree which was in our vessel
Me somehow managed on the little water we had with us, no grain havU been
worth lliinees°3- S fl ° m ° Ur \f Sed wer0 Pfundered except an anchor, maunds 14,
ancho/of the boat Pu 2 > wol,tl1 Bu P ecs 15 . a tank worth Korees 175, an
r .. i / 1 . c boat Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 7a, two water goglets of the worth Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 4, and three
vessel wt n § o W ^ Rupe f 12 ‘ This ^ as tbe onl y 1°^ The loss of the other
Mahasood Sumbut 1930’°’ " a taDk C00kinS p0t tUan ours ' •‘ :Dated lltb
thnre^ llCSiml ^ Aacocla Noor Mahomed.—T)o any men of Government live
they were Wriy HaM as aW.^ neither tbe tcle Sraph ;
In the Mandvie Adawlut, before Moulvie Abdool Kadub.
the Mandv^AdnwIuf ^ ■ bout 70 yeai-s ’ “^bitant of Candahar, state in
ofSa^otrMahomed fZ^A^frl "tl 1 ^ ° n YCSsel
his wifp inbnUifonf r ii Aden foi Kutch. There was a Bukeer with
When the vessel arrival hf 4 •! me ^ 1 do uot kll0 ' v «»eir names,
detained theTukeer I ^^0 T" tUe robbei ' s “f that place seized and
thk m 1 irdi rpj ciiou^ with two 0 ther men of another vessel. I onlv know
the sails and sailed “the " n'° fl ' om tbc shorc - When our Nacoda unfolded
us for mmt^nd ot ^ ^ Tbey P—ing
returned. Rtcd 11th MShLod, Sumbut 1930 ^ ^^-utly they
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