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700 mounted Bedouins. The Shaikh complained of the injustice of the
treatment which he had received.
Further cor- The energetic proceeding's of Nafiz Pasha^ Wali of Basrah, in Qatif
bTtweerfthe an ^ Q^atar occasioned, in 1888, some disquiet to Her Majesty's Gov-
Ta^k^h^ ernmet1 ^ > hut, as the steps taken were ostensibly due to British strictures
emments re- on the prevalence of piracy, and as a discussion of boundaries was not
position of 0 desired, it was apparently resolved not to object to them. At the time
the Porte in it was believed that the Shammar Amir of Hail contemplated operations
Qatar, 1889. a g a i ng f; 'Oman, and that it might be the intention of the Turks to assist
him with troops from Hasa and Qatar. In 1889, however, with the
plain object of asserting- Turkish sovereignty over Qatar, the Turkish
Foreign Office informed the British Ambassador at Constantinople that
the garrison in Qatar would be reinforced from the Baghdad Army
Corps; but Her Majesty's Government deemed it sufficient to remind
the Porte, with reference to the state of war which then prevailed between
the Shaikh of Dohah and the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi and by which the
Turks might have been tempted to seek an extension of influence in the
direction of Abu Dhabi, that Her Majesty's Government could not view
with indifference any attempt on the part of the Turkish authorities at
interference or aggression in 'Oman.
Relations of Qatar with Bahrain, and affairs at Zubarah,
1872 92.
Qatai was the theatre, during this period, of various movements,
dangerous, or at least interesting, to the Bahrain principality; but these
are noted in the history of Bahrain, and here we shall confine ourselves to
some remarks on the claim of the Shaikh of Bahrain to Qatar and on
affairs at Zubarah.
Claim Of 11,e The sovereignty of the Shaikh of Bahrain over Qatar, unquestioned
ISLlo bef0re, WaS br0Ught int0 discussi «" hv the Turkish conquest of Hasa;
Zubirab. and m 1871 Colonel Pelly, the Political Resident, was desired by the
Government of Bombay to report on the subject, but obtained leave to
defer doing so on the ground that there was a probability of the Turks
withdrawing from Hasa. The question then slumbered until the summer
of 1873, when a Turkish officer was reported to have gone to Zubarah in
Qatar lor the purpose of persuading the inhabitants to acknowledge
Turkish authority; by this occurrence the Shaikh of Bahrain was moved
to formulate a claim to Zubarah on the ground that the Na'im of