"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٩‎٧‎٤] (١٧٨٢/١١٢٩)

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carried off Rs. 10 ,000 in oaish, and returned to Qatar. Another
consisting partly of Bani Hajir and partly of A1 Morrah, seized
a Shu^ai belon^in^ to 'Amair of Qatif ; put to sea in the same and cap
tured a Qatif Baqarah, which they carried to Dam mam ; took and
plundered a Qatif M ashuwah ; ])roceeded in the Qatif Baqarah to the Qatar
coast, where a Baqarah of Dohah fell a prey to them off Ras LafFan; and
finallv carried their plunder to Dohat-as-Salwa and there released the prize
in which their cruises had been made. A party of Bani Hajir Bedouins
under Zaid-bin-Muhammad, one of the Bani Hajir of Dhahran ; having
embarked at Dohah as passengers in a Bas-al-Khaimah vessel, compelled
the master to put ashore at a place on the coast of Qatar; re-inforced there
by 17 other Bedouins they sailed for the Persian coast; between the
islands of Qais and Hindarabi they captured a Mashuwah, owned upon
the Persian side, wounding the Nakhuda and his son ; they then returned
to Ras Laffan on the coast of Qatar, where they transferred four of their
victims to the Ras-al-Khaimah boat and let it go, but two of the Mashu-
wah's crew they retained as prisoners. A Bahrain Mashuwah, on ter way
from Qatif to Bahrain, was attacked and plundered by Bani Hajir near
Dammam, and two slaves on board of her were carried off. Another
Bahrain Mashuwah met with similar treatment in the same neighbour
hood at the hands, it was supposed, of the same gang. On che -Ith of
September a Qatar Mashuwah bound for 'Oqair was attacked, while
passing Zubarah, by the people of that place in two Baqarahs; three
passengers were killed on the spot, six were wounded of whom one died,
a girl was kidnapped, and property worth §700 was taken; the attack was
led by Muhammad-bin-Rashid, son of the headman of Zubarah, whose
father, looking on from the top of his fort, found nothing to censure in
his proceedings except that the lives of any of the victims shoild have
been spared. At Darin on Tarut Island a boat belonging to a Baghlah
owned by Ibrahim-bin-Yusuf, a naturalised British subject, was
seized by a gang of 25 Bani Hajir under the aforesaid Zaid-bin-Muham
mad, who carried it off to Dammam; the crew were then released
except a boy and a slave; these the pirates kept. A Bum, anchored
in the inner harbour at Qatif town, was seized by Bedouins, probably
Amair, and was carried off along with her cargo of dates, the Nakhuda
and two sailors being at the same time kidnapped; she was afterwards
seen pro\N ling in a piratical fashion off the Bahrain islands, A Dangi,
while lying in the inner harbour of Qatif, was surrounded by four boats
of the Amair and plundered of $200, a large sail and her small boat. A
boat from a Ghunchah belonging to Ras-al-Khaimah was attacked on
shoie by six or seven 'Amair under the very walls of the Qatif fort, and