"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٧‎٢‎٠] (١٧٨٢/٨٦٣)

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On his first visit to the Trucial Coast after the conclusion of the
Perpetual Peace, the Resident, Captain Kern ball, found the Shaikhs
eontirmed in their " attachment and devotion to the British Govern
ment " and in their resolution faithfully to observe their engagements.
On this occasion only two slight cases of breach of the peace at sea
came under his consideration, and they were easily settled.
In January 1855 a Shu^ai belonging to one 'Abdul Karim of
Bahrain, having been driven by a storm to take shelter near Khor-al-
'Odaid, was attacked and plundered there by two Baghlahs of Abu
Dhabi; in the fray 'Abdul Karim himself was wounded and one of his
men was killed. The Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, Zaid-bin-Khalifah, who
had just succeeded to the Shaikhdom, at first demurred to settling the
case on the ground that it had occurred under his predecessor; but, this
piea having been disallowed, he complied with the demands made on him
through Commodore Ethersey by paying full compensation for the
robbery and §600 as Diyah or blood-money on account of the murdered
man, and by causing the two offending Baghlahs to be burnt.
A disturbance which took place at Hamriyah in 1855 gave rise to
several slight aggressions at sea, two of them upon stranger vessels
belonging to the Batinah coast; but redress in these cases was
easily obtained.
In November 1855, while the " Kallian'"', a Bombay native vessel
belonging to a Hindu British subject, was unloading her cargo at
Sharjah, a storm arose and drove her on shore. On the wind
abating a rabble from the town came down to the beach and plundered
and partially destroyed her, besides tearing down a British flag wbich
the Nakhuda had hoisted for her protection j and a second British flag
having been hoisted, the Arabs began to abuse the British Government
and violently assaulted one of the crew. A man-of-war was accordingly
despatched to Sharjah with a demand for compensation, for the repair
of the vessel, and for the punishment of the guilty parties ; and, after
a vain attempt by the Shaikh to present the case as one of wreck and
to throw the blame upon Bedouins not amenable to his authority,
these terms were substantially fulfilled.
An ordinary ease of the seizure of runaway divers upon the pearl banks
was so energetically handled in this year by the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi,
who imprisoned the chief offender and returned the kidnapped divers
to the Residency Agent at Sharjah, that Government authorised a
special increase in the value of his next annual present.
A peculiar case arose in July 1856 from the participation of a force,
sent by sea from Sbarjah, in an attempt to reinstate at Abu Dhabi