"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎١] (١٧٨٢/٢٧٤)

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The Dutch intended to import 80 famife of Chinese »d thereafter to
drive out the native Arab inhabitants.
Mr. Wood, as has been shown, was convinced that his own subse-
mg ^ hlought about by the . nt) .^ o{ ^
on larag, h m, he believed, were anxious to poeeees themeelves of
lag.
Or. Ives and his companions visited Kharag on their way from Indi^
to Europe m 1758 and were entertained by the Dutch there from the 31st
of March to the 19th of April. The staff of the Factory at this time
consisted of Baron Kniphausen, the Chief, who had now reached middle
, r. Bosman, the Second, who was accompanied by his *wife;
Mr. Robingson, an ensign in the Dutch artillery, but of English
extraction; Mr. Nicoli, accountant; and Mr. Binkey, master attendant.
e ort, which was of stone, was square and mounted 32 guns, and
e ore the gate, facing the sea, was a ravelin containing 12 guns, six to
eighteen pounders ; the garrison of the fort consisted of 100 European
so diers. A wall had been begun which was to run from north-west to
south-east behind the town, and a triangular bastion had been constructed
at its north-western end. There was a small harbour, protected from
southerly winds by a stone breakwater, and in it lay two or three armed
gahvats of 6 to 8 carriage-guns apiece. The Baron showed much
interest m the British travellers and endeavoured, but without success, to
arrange for their making the journey to Aleppo by the desert route
^rom Kuwait, with the Shaikh of which place he was in relations; he was
" Very in( l ul8ltlv e about the diving-bell and some other late discoveries
made in England, for enabling men to keep a long while under water;
and he commissioned Dr. Ives to buy him in England a library of all
sorts of books, besides scientific and other instruments,—a task which
that gentleman duly discharged.
Baron Kniphausen remained at Kharag till 1758 or 1759, when he The Dutch
returned to Batavia and was succeeded by Mr. van der Hulst, formerly on KUrag
his principal assistant at Basrah. Under Mr. van der Hulst, who un< * er
governed Kharag for two and a half years, the war between the Dutch Huist!" ^
and the chief of Rig continued. On one occasion Mir Mahanna sent l ^ 59 ' 6 '"
over two armed vessels at night, which by the clever device of carrying
noisy fowls on board and so causing themselves to be mistaken for boats
* This is the first mention with which the wiiter haa met of a European lady in
t > eisian Gulf. Probably the Mr. "Bosraan " mentioned here is the same as the
Mr. Buschman who afterwards became Chief : see page 1 132, po.if.
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