"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الجزء II. ج. ج. لوريمر. ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٦‎٥‎٥] (١٢٦٢/١٧٢)

1655
"Skill, Tumansor £3,000 per annum j but I now he was hardly able to scrape
oFallilj together enough ready money for the needs of his own household, and by
lal siiij 1840 his contributions to the Persian Treasury were 24,000 Tumans in
arrear. He continued to have about 5,000 fighting men at his disposal,
Ws full | jut W e r e indifferently armed. Saiyid Taraj Ullah, who was Wall at
16 ^ this time, was a man of little ability and generally unpopular; but the
overlcri gacred character of Saiyid gave him a certain advantage in political
iizeli, fa intrigues. One of his wives known as "the Bibi/' was evidently much
16 ptoeei trusted by him, for she was accustomed to manage his affairs at Hawizeh
haikk H in his absence. The Wali was at heart ill-affected to the Persian
f at Kill Government, which continued to harass him with demands for a revenue
3 bimsel: that he could no longer pay and for a time kept him a prisoner at
abadir, Kirmanshah.
In 1837 'Ali Pasha, the Turkish ruler o£ Baghdad, organised a sudden Capture^
ie extent; ex p e( ^ 0I1 against Muhammareh and apparently conducted it himself, the
5 . 0ftlieCl The motive usually attributed to him is jealousy of the prosperity of Turks, 1837.
.igliboiusi M u hammareh, which, as no customs duties were levied there, was draw-
>ttoaU ing trade away from Basrah to the detriment of the Turkish public
^ ® revenues. It is not impossible* however, that the notorious preoccupation
vm di 0 f the Shah with designs on Herat merely suggested to his mind the
ibe of k feasibility of making a convenient addition to the Ottoman Empire. In
s time li an y ca g e geenis to have had no difficulty in carrying his purpose into
P seo{a f effect.
tal m Persian version of what occurred, communicated to His Majesty s
. i Government by the British Minister at Tehran in 1844, was as follows :
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and^Jl Amongst the Arabs of those parts there are two particular tribes, named respectively
j Derissis and Ansar, who have risen into great power, and to whom is owing the ruin of
lVeie C Mohammerah. Jaaber, having been deputed by Sheikh Thamir Khan to govern Moham-
i sunk if ^ merah, appropriated to hinuelf the entire revenues which arose from the gardens without
; ruine^I admitting the Keab Arabs to any participation. Ou the arrival accordingly of the Pasha
WjUtf of Bagdad, and enmity having at the same time broken out between the two tribes, a
I project was formed for the assassination of Jaaber, who, however, obtaining informa-
to been ! ^ oil 0 £ piQ^ three days after the Pasha's arrival and before any slaughter had com*
menced, fled away in a boat with, his family and servants. On this intelligence getting
: abroad, the whole population was seized with a sort of panic and cast themselves into
of tie ^ tig water of the Shatt; women and children unable to swim perished in the waves ; about
cefiori^ 4,000 souls were carried into slavery by the Arnaouts and Turkish soldiers, others saved
themselves by flight* The Mahommedans of Bussorah purchased many of these children
of for 18 or 20 kurnah (? Qrans) a head, and restored them to their parents^
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lU t tbfl ^ * Viz., the Dris and Nassar divisions of the Ka'ab ; but dissensions between these had*
the dy c as We shall see further on, little or nothing to do with the matter^