"مختارات من سجلات حكومة بومباي" [‎٤‎٧‎٦] (٧٣٣/٥١٨)

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BENIYAS.
his party threw twenty-five bodies overboard, and that the same number
were taken away wounded. This makes thirty-three killed in this boat
alone, and it is highly gratifying to me to find that none of the survivors
originally belonging to the vessel were hurt by us. Two of them had
been cut and stabbed by the pirates, and two others injured in the
contest with them. They abandoned the Buggalow about 4 p m
preferring the peril of a raft to again falling into the hands of the pirates'
whom they expected to return. The other Buggalow must have suffered
much more, and it is a matter of deep regret that we could not get up
with her. ^ Salim states that it was the intention of the pirates, after taking
the Nassir, to proceed to Ras-ool-IIud, for the purpose of committing
more depredations."
Ihis exhibition of the determination and power to put down piracy
very materially facilitated the attainment of our objects, and accelerated
compliance with the demands now made, of which the following is a
list, enumerating the various vessels plundered, not including the
Muskat brig Curlew, the British Buggalow Bury a Dowlut, and various
boats belonging to the Joasmees and others (between whom, however,
and the Beniyas war had again lately broken out)
Ust of the demands to he made on the Chief of Aboothabee, in compen
sation for the outrages committed by the Beniyas on the peaceable
Arabs of the Persian Gulf.
Number.
Description of Vessels.
Value of Vessels
and Cargoes, in
German Crowns.
1 Muskat Buggalow and cargo
2 Bahrein Buteel
10,000
439
5,903
500
250
250
500
766
300
5, 8, 9, 10, 15 Boats of various descriptions of Lingah
3 Bahrein Bnggalow (Nukhlowe)
11 Karrack Buggalow
12 Bushire Bug2 ;arah.
(i Nukhlowe Buggarah (Mahomed)
7 Lingah Buggarah
13 Moolla Hussein,
16 Bunder Malla, &c.
17 Bin Saleh's Buteel
18 Sooedad's Buteel .
14 Losses inflicted on people of Bassadore
19 Congoon Buggalow
439
500
250
4,500
Total
24,597
A Beniyas Buteel, with a valuable cargo from India, touching at