"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٨‎٢‎١] (١٧٨٢/٩٧٦)

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In 1887 a piratical Baqarah from W akrali attacked a boat of the [887,
Qubaisat Bani Y as on tbe pearl banks, and one of the crew of the latter
was so severely wounded that he died.
In 1888 the protracted war between the Shaikhs of Dohah and Abu x) ea t|j 0 f a
Dhabi suddenly reached a crisis. In February of that year, the Wali of
Basrah being then actually present in Dohah, a raid was committed at 1888.
Na'aijah in the immediate vicinity by Manasir camel riders, chiefly of
the Al Bu Sha'ar section, who carried away 40 male and female slaves ;
and some of the Manasir, advancing yet nearer, abducted two or three
slaves from the very outskirts of Dohah. Pursuit was attempted, but was
unsuccessful. In March Jasim made a retaliatory raid into the district
of Liwah in Dhafrah and carried off some 400 camels, which he divided
amongst his followers 5 he also recovered, on this occasion, two of the
slaves raided from Dohah^ and he caused 20 Llwah villagers to be soundly
thrashed. In May the tables were again turned by a raiding party of
250 Bedouins whom Shaikh Zaid despatched against Dohah under his son
Khalifah j on their arrival before the place. Shaikh Jasim himself being
then at Dha'ain, the townspeople turned out against them in scattered
detachments, were drawn by a simulated flight into an ambush, and lost
34 men killed, among whom was 'Ali, a son of Jasim.
Between rage and grief Shaikh Jasim was all but distraught; he Prospect of
. t i c i i j. ti Turkish and
incited the Turks to invade Trucial 'Oman, he applied for help to lun- Central
Rashid, he opened a correspondence with the Shaikhs of Trucial 'Oman ^f r ^ enc0
other than Shaikh Zaid, and he subsidised freely a number of the m the war,
Bedouin tribes. On Ibn-Rashid making a favourable response to his
overtures disturbances on a serious scale, and even an attack by Jasim and
his allies upon Abu Dhabi, began to be apprehended by the British
political authorities.
The Turks, however, possibly on account of a warning against inter- 188!
ference which the Government of India asked might be conveyed to the
Porte, did not move; Ibn-Rashid also remained inactive; and Shaikh
Jasim's reprisals eventually took the shape of incursions into Liwah, in
January and February 1889, in which date plantations were cut down
and men, women, and children barbarously murdered. Shaikh Jasim
also prohibited the subjects of the Shaikh of Dibai, who had now thrown
in his lot with the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, from landing in Qatar for
trade or for anv other purpose. In April the Bani Yas in their turn
retaliated by an expedition to the distant region of Barr-al-Qarah,
from which they carried away a large number of camels belonging to the
Bedouin tribes that supported the Shaikh of Dohah. In June a countei-