"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." [‎١‎٥‎٤] (٦١٢/٣١٥)

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uttered, than the cry was repeated on all sides, and the youth
of Barkah following the lead of their elders, and of those
who were assembled at the place from other districts, fell
upon the Persians and put them all to the sword, with the
exception of two hundred. These exclaimed " quarter!
quarter!" and on hearing their voices Ahmed-bin-Said
ordered the crier to proclaim a suspension of the slaughter.
The chiefs who had entered the fort, however, were all put
to death. Ahmed-bin-Said then directed the mariners of
Barkah, to transport the survivors to Bunder-el-^Abbas, but
when they were near Jebel-es-Sawady 1 the seamen set fire to
the ships, swam to land themselves, and left the Persians to
be drowned.
Ahmed-bin-Said then ordered Khamis-bin-Salim to re
turn to Maskat, and to take with him all those who used to
reside there and at el-Matrah, and who had fled from the
Persians to Barkah, (for the residents at Maskat and el-
Matrah, and the people of the Wadi-Hatat had all fled from
the Persians and taken up their abode at Barkah). On
Khamis's arrival at Maskat, the people who had occupied
the neighbourhood beyond the wall could not recognize the
boundaries of their former dwellings, owing to the damage
caused by the stabling of the Persian cavalry, and the quan
tity of dung which had accumulated there. This circum
stance gave rise to a serious affray between the contending
claimants, in which as many as sixty persons were killed.
Thereupon Khamis-bin-Salim undertook to mediate between
the parties, and apportioned among them the.places in dis
pute ; and now Maskat and el-Matrah began to recover from
the effects of the Persian occupation.
Ahmed-bin-Said then went to er-Rastak and occupied its
fortress; then to Semail, which submitted to him without
opposition; then to Azka, which received him in like man-
• The es-Sawddy (literally, the Black,) are a group of islets about ten
miles from Barkah.