"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٠‎٩‎٢] (١٧٨٢/١٢٤٧)

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March from
Manfuhah to
Kass, August
1819.
March from
Rass to
Hanakiyah,
August-Sep
tember 1819.
Departure
of Ibrahim
Pasha foi
Egypt, Nov
ember 1819.
On the 13th of August the Sulaimiyah garrison reached Manfuhah
in safety, and the march to Qasim was begun; the whole surrounding
country was now up in arras ; and the Kashif was unable to give effect
to a design that he had formed of butchering the principal "Wahhabis
of Manfuhah before he left. The ruins of* Dara'iyah, untenanted by any
living creature, were passed on the same day; and the force camped for
the night at 'Ayainah. On the next day the Haisiyah pass in Jabal
Tuwaiq was surmounted, which still bore the tracks of Ibrahim Pasha's
t guns ; that officer had apparently marched from the neighbourhood of
Dara'iyah not far in advance of the Kashif. The retiring troops passed
Barrah, which was found deserted, on the 15th of August; on the 16th
they arrived Tharmidah, and on the 17th at Shaqrah. At Shaqrah the
Turks were in time to pursue and overtake a body of the ; Ataibah, who
had just raided the flocks and herds of the town; 2U of the enemy they
despatched on the plain, and five they brought in as prisoners and
beheaded. The camel transport, supplied by the Bani Khalid, should
have been relieved at this place by animals belonging to the Mutair;
but some hitch occurred, and eventually the Egyptians confiscated
all the camels and dismissed the l^ani Khalid without pay or compensation,
During the whole march the Turks had not permitted the Arabs to take
their camels to any distance from the camp for grazing, fearing lest thev
should desert. Mudhnib was reached on the 23rd of August, 'Anaizah
on the 24th, and Rass on the 26th. Ibrahim Pasha had taken his
departure fiom liass for IVIadinah on the 24th; but an extraordinary
mixed camp of Turks, Albanians, Libyan Bedouins and Bedouins of Najd
still remained, to which Captain Sadleir added his quota of Persians,
Indians, Portuguese and Armenians.
The Egyptian authority at Rass having refused to facilitate his return
to India by way of Basrah, Captain Sadleir was obliged to continue on
his way towards the Red Sea in the company of the retiring troops. On
the 31 st of August he arrived in the Wadi-al-Miyah; on the 2nd of
September he passed the former battlefield of Jabal Mawiyah; and on the
4th of September he reached the Egyptian post of Hanakiyah, after an
exhausting continuous march of 29 4 hours without water4
The subsequent proceedings of Captain Sadleir in Hijaz are related
in the history of Trucial'Oman; and here it only remains to add that
* Captain Sadleir has left an interesting description of Dara'iyah as he saw it.
t In his operations the Pasha's guns were generally dragged by camels.
J 1 he features of this long and arduous retirement, in its mingled panic and
bmUhty, are achmrably brought out by Captain Sadleir in fbe p^s of Ms