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The hollowness of the arrangement was, however, very shortly demon
strated by the seizure, in Ras-al-Khaimah harbour, of a boat in which
Lieutenant Brace, under the orders of Government, had sent friendly
letters to the chief and to his envoy, Hasan-bin-Muhammad, regarding
the capture off Porbandar in the preceding month of August of some
boats under British colours. According to one authority * the wretched
envoy himself had, on his return from Bushehr to Ras-al-Khaimah,
been subjected to the most degrading treatment because of his con
cessions to the infidel.
The Qawasim, feeling perhaps how deeply they had committed
themselves, now indulged in a carnival of maritime lawlessness, to
which even their own previous record presented no parallel. In the
Mughu anchorage, with the connivance of the people of Mughu, they
captured a Baghlah belonging to Saiyid Sa'id of Masqat which was
laden with remounts for His Majesty's 17th Light Dragoons and with
sulphur for the British Government. Six native vessels were taken by
them off the coast of Sind; and not long afterwards an action was
fought off Quryat between one of their fleets, consisting of a ship with
25 Baghlahs and Batils, and a squadron commanded by Saiyid Sa id of
Masqat in person. In this encounter the Saiyid was wounded, while his
flagship the " Caroline" was boarded, and, but for an opportune dis
charge of grape from the poop among the enemy's boarders oiowiliti
the forecastle, would probably have been taken. In 1815 a Biitish
Indian vessel was captured by the Qawasim near Masqat, the majority
of the crew being put to death and the remainder held to ransom.
On the 6th of January 1816 the H.E.I. Company's armed
pattamar " Deriah Dowlut," officered and manned entirely by natives
of India, was attacked by Qawasim off Dwarka, and eventually taken
by boarding. Out of 38 souls on board, 17 were killed or murdered,
8 were carried prisoners to Ras -al-Khaimah, and the remaindei, being
wounded, were landed on the Indian coast. The entire armament
of the fC Deriah Dowlut" consisted of two Impounder and three 2-poun-
der iron guns ; whereas each of the pirate vessels, thiee in numbei,
carried six 9-pounders and was manned by 100 to 200 Arabs, fully
armed.
In the same month a Qasimi squadron composed of 15 vessels, the
smallest pulling 20 oars, waylaid the H.E.I. Company s cruiser Amoia
of U guns, Captain Jeakes, while convoying down the Persian Gulf a arge
Immediate
break-down
of the
arrangement.
Numerous
freah
outrages by
the Qawasim,
1815,
Capture of
the " Deriah
Dowlut,"
Januarv
1816.
Attack on
the "Aurora,"
Janu»vy
1816.
* Vide Buckinghara, pages 424-425.