"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." [‎١‎٧‎٠] (٦١٢/٣٣١)

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THE IMAMS OF 'OMAN.
smaller vessels, and dispatched ten thousand men in them
against the Persians. When they reached the river of el-
Bdsrah and saw the iron chain suspended across it, they
forced the ship called er-Rahmdny against it and broke it.
Then the Arabs, sword in hand, fell on the Persians and
routed them, driving them out of el-B£srah, which the in
habitants reoccupied, the Imam returning to Mdskat with
his ships.
When the King of the Eflm 1 heard of these proceedings he
was highly pleased with the Imam for having sided with his
subjects of el-Bdsrah against the Persians, and he directed
his governor at that place to pay a khardj 2 to the Imam,
which was continued during the reign of his son the Seyyid
Sultan, and also during that of his grandson Said-bin-
Sultan-bin-el-Imam.
y Then certain Coolies took to plunder on the sea leading
to Mangalore, which place at that time belonged to Tippoo,
the Malik of the Nawwab. In consequence of these piracies
Maskat was deprived of rice, and the Imam Ahmed-bin-
Said sent one of the notables of the el-Harth in his ship the
er-Rahmdny to Mangalore. On his arrival there the people
of the place were highly delighted, and the resident gover
nor, on behalf of the Sultan, the Nawwab, received him with
great honour. (Delhi in India was at that time the capital
of the Nawwab, Tippoo's Sultan.) The el-Harthy having
asked the governor of the town why supplies of rice had not
reached ^Oman as usual, the governor informed him of the
Coolies , proceedings on the sea. Thereupon the el-Harthy,
having asked for a guide to the Coolies' retreat, proceeded
thither with his followers, and when the two parties met
there was a great fight between them in which the Amir of
the Coolies was slain. Thereby the way was reopened for
rice to be sent from the place where it was produced to Man-
1 That is, the Ottoman Sultan at Constantinople.
2 Khardj here probably means a subsidy.