"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." [‎٦‎٧] (٦١٢/١٠٠)

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council of the chiefs, at which it was resolved that a recon
ciliation should be attempted between Kais and his nephews
Salim and Said, on these conditions :—Kais was to retain the
two forts which he had already captured, and to receive
besides a monthly allowance of 2,000 dollars. This offer
having been rejected by Kais, hostilities were resumed, the
assailants making frequent raids in the vicinity of the town,
the besieged occasionally issuing forth to repulse them. A
messenger was now dispatched by the Seyyidah to Bedr-
bin-Seif, who was then in Katar (see note, p. 237), soliciting
his presence. He immediately set" out for Maskat, and on
his arrival the two Seyyids and the Seyyidah surrendered the
entire management of affairs into his hands. Bedr then took
up his residence in the fort at Barkah, where he was soon
after joined by large levies from the tribes of ezh-Zhahirah,
who, as already mentioned, were mostly under Wahhaby
influence, and therefore more disposed to cooperate with Bedr,
whose Wahhaby proclivities were notorious. However, he
lost no time in forwarding these reinforcements to Muhenna
to aid in the defence of Mdskat.
The arrival at Barkah of 7,000 of the Nizariyyah, under
the command of Hamid-bin-Nasir, el-Ghafiry, ostensibly to
support Bedr and his cousins, induced Kais to propose a
reconciliation with his nephews. It was accordingly agreed
that he should continue to hold the forts of es-Sib and el-
Khaburah, but should withdraw from el Mdtrah and return
to Sohar. This amicable arrangement was greatly promoted
by Muhenna, who appears to have acted with exemplary
loyalty to the cause which he had espoused. Moreover,
having been apprised that a secret understanding existed
between the el-Ghafiry auxiliaries and their kinsmen the el-
Kawasim to seize Maskat, in the event of the former being
admitted into that town, he was most anxious to get rid of
their presence. The fact that the Seyyids Salim and Said
felt bound, in dispensing with their services, to send thein