"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٤‎٥‎٥] (١٧٨٢/٥٩٨)

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confirmed and the parties bound themselves to live in peace without
jealousy or discord^ Sa'id even undertaking to afford the Sohar chief
military support, should such be required, against his enemies.
Whether Hamud faithfully observed this treaty or not is uncertain:
facts can be adduced in favour of either view. In 1840 Hamud accom
panied Sa'id on a cruise to Qishm and Bandar 'Abbas j but again in
1841, after the departure of Sa^id for Africa, he paid a visit to Bombay
of which the object has not been satisfactorily explained and was probably
hostile to Sa'id. On his return to Sohar the conduct of Hamud was
peculiar; for he placed some Mutawwa's or religious zealocs—among them
the afterwards famous Sa^d-bin-Khalfan Khalili,—in charge of his
principal forts, to hold them against the Wahhabis, and himself adopted
a religious profession and way of life. A proposal was next circulated,
perhaps without his approval, that he should be raised to the Imamate
of all •'Oman. Then, a disagreement having occurred between Saif,
the son of Hamud, and the Mutawwa' party, the former succeeded in
possessing himself of Sohar ; but, on his opening friendly relations with
Sa'id^s representative Thuwaini, his father Hamud caused him to be
assassinated. The order, connection, and explanation of these events are,
and must remain, obscure.
In 1849 Saiyid Thuwaini proceeded by sea to Shinas. One of his
objects was to provide for the safety of Shinas, Ghallah and Khor
Fakkan—the two latter havino- been at some time recovered from the
O
Qawasim—which were again threatened by the northern tribes; but
another object also soon declared itself in the treacherous seizure at
Shinas of Hamud, whom Thuwaini suspected of hostile proceedings in
consistent with the treaty of 1839, and in an attack on Sohar. Qais, the
brother of Hamud, defended Sohar with energy and called in the Shaikh
of Ras-al-Khaimah, with whose help Shinas, Ghallah and Khor Fakkan
were quickly taken; meanwhile however, in April 1850, Hamud had
died in his prison at Masqat, not without suspicion of foul play. The
Government of India, who strongly reprobated the faithless conduct of
Saiyid Thuwaini, sent the Political llesident in a steam-frigate to
mediate, but not authoritatively, between the parties in the field ; but
his intervention remained without effect: letters also were written by
the British authorities to Saiyid Sa^id at Zanzibar to urge his immediate
return.
SaM on reaching Masqat in May 1851 approved the proceedings of
Inuwaini, who in all likelihood had only obeyed his father's instructions;
* The Appendix on Religions may be consulted with reference to the Ma'awwa party
and their views.
Eccentric
behaviour
thereafter of
Saiyid
Hamud,
1839-49.
1 reachfcrous
removal of
Saiyid Ha
mud by the
representa
tive of Saiyid
Sa'id.
1849-50.
Recovery df
Sohar by
Saiyid Sa'id,
1851.