"تاريخ أئمة وأسياد عُمان بقلم سليل ابن رزيق، من ٦٦١-١٨٥٦ م، مترجم من الأصل العربي، ومُحرّر بملاحظات وملاحق ومقدمة تواصل التاريخ حتى سنة ١٨٧٠، بقلم جورج بيرسي بادجر، عضو في الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية والقس الراحل في رئاسة بومباي." [‎٤] (٦١٢/٣٧)

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introduction
than any of the old Arabian geographers, but, as the extract
will show, his information, especially with regard to the
relative position of places in this part of Arabia, is most
inaccurate.
^Oman, as a principality, was sometimes co-extensive
with the aforesaid limits, sometimes it comprised more and
sometimes less territory, the boundaries within their Jurisdic
tion depending in a great measure upon the personal character
of the native rulers and the success or failure of their policy
towards the turbulent outlying tribes. At the present day
the principality of ^Oman extends, on the east, from Eas-el-
Iladd to Cape Musandim, 1 but a very small portion of the
western coast now recognizes its authority. Westward,
inland, it may be said to stretch as far as the great Arabian
desert. Its sovereign dependencies on the coast of Mekran
are Guadel and Sharbar, and it farms the littoral from Ras-
Jashk to Bnnder-el-'Abbas—part of the ancient Caramania
—together with the islands of Hormftz and el-Kishm, 2 from
the Shah of Persia. The islands of Zanzibar, Pemba, and
Monfia, with their dependencies on the east coast of Africa,
from Cape Delgado to Mukdishu, (Magadoxo), constituted a
part of the 'Oman state up to 1861, when they were formed
into a separate principality under Majid, a younger son of
the late Seyyid Said.
But according to local native geography'Oman is merely one
of five districts into which the principality is subdivided.
styles the sea near and south of the island of el-Bahrein the " sea of
Yemen." (See Lee's Translation, p. 65.) The name " el-Bahrein"
literally, the Two Seas—probably owes its origin to the notion that two
seas, namely, that of Yemen or 'Omftn, and that of Fars or Kerman,
met in that locality. The designation is not unlike that of the tSwos
Sida\a(r<ros of Acts, xxvii. 41.
1 So spelt in the Arabic of Brucks's chart of the Persian Gulf.
2 El-Tdrisy calls this island " Kish," or " Kaish ;" the author of this
History vocalizes it " el-Kilsum and Palgrave makes it " Djishm." The
more familiar designation is retained above.