"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." [‎٣‎٣] (٦١٢/٦٦)

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women and children perished of thirst in a cave. They also
took many captives and sent them out of the country to be
sold as slaves. While at er-Rastak, Muhammad's dispos
able force was augmented by a contingent of 6,500 men,
levied chiefly from Julfar and es-Sirr. Conspicuous among
these were the followers of Esihmah-bin-Matar, who spoke
a jargon which the ^Omanis did not understand, (see note,
p. 111).
In the meantime, Yaarub, who had been put forward as
the head of the insurrection, died at Nezwa. This event
raised Muhammad-bin-Nasir to a still more conspicuous
position, and in a short time he became master of all the
strongholds of 'Oman, with the exception of Maskat and
Barkah. The former place was still in the hands of the
el-Yaarubah, but the Benu-Hinah expelled them. At
this juncture Khalf-bin-Mubarak, or Nasir, nicknamed "the
Short," a prominent chief of the el-Hinay, hearing that Mu
hammad-bin-Nasir threatened Barkah, threw himself into
that fort, and ordered Muhammad's messenger, who had
been sent to demand its surrender, to be put to death. Bent
on revenge, Muhammad divided his army into five troops
and marched to el-Masnaah, a village on the coast twelve
miles to the south-east of es-Suwaik, where he pitched his
camp. Scouts were sent out to reconnoitre, and after some
skirmishes with the outposts of the enemy, and a fight on
their own private account between two chiefs who had
espoused opposite sides in the contest, and who seized this
opportunity to settle an old-standing grudge, Muhammad-
bin-Nasir moved upon Barkah with his main force, one
troop of which—that of Rahmah-bin-Matar—possessed
"guns, which were drawn over the ground/' Khali's
people were obliged to retire into the fort, where their
assailants lay siege to them, and a detachment was sent to
invest es-Sib, between Barkah and Mdskat, Khalf himselt
managing to effect his escape to the latter place.
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