"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." [‎٢‎٠‎٩] (٦١٢/٣٧٠)

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After performing his ablutions he requested Fadhl to recite
the prayer. That done, J ,1 adhl said to him, ( 1 adjure you
by the name of God to tell me what occupies your thoughts
this morning/ He replied: f If you wish me to tell you
send your cousin away/ Fadhl rejoined : ' Do not hesitate
on his account, for I have proved him, and found him worthy
of being trusted with a secret/ Hamed then said, 'I have
been thinking of three things, and unless I attain them my
life will be unbearable; and yet their attainment is very
difficult. First, there is Mombasah; 1 but its fort is strong,
and it is held by the terrible Wanika, a people whom God
alone can number. Secondly, Bombay, which is a town of
great resources and thickly populated/ Thereupon Fadhl
remarked: 'We are aware of those two things, but what is
the third V Hdmed was silent for some time and then said,
' The third is of greater importance than the other two/
' What is it? , inquired Fadhl. He replied, 'The man who
reached Nuaman before our arrival at Barkah/ 'Why, that
is your uncle Sultan,' said Fadhl, 'and we hear that he has
only twelve men with him/ 'Nevertheless,' replied Hamed,
' he is of more consequence to me than either Mombasah or
Bombay/ After being silent for an hour he ordered one of
his slaves to have all his horses saddled, and directed that
he and another should go into the town and bring him every
Arab who possessed a camel. In the course of an hour a
large number of horsemen and camel-men were collected,
and we mounted with him and proceeded with them towards
IS uaman, to invite his uncle Sultan to a feast. When we
reached the small cocoa-nut trees. Sultan came towards us,
accompanied by twelve men, all of whom dismounted, and
Sultan advanced, leading his camel, with shield and sword
unable to say whether the custom of praying at sunrise is peculiar to
the 'Omanis or not.
1 Mombasah, an island on the cast coast of Africa about one hundred
miles to the northward of Zanzibar, to which principality it at present
belongs.