"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." [‎٢‎٦‎٥] (٦١٢/٤٢٦)

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the et-Taivdkkuly, and reached Maskat the following after
noon. Muhenna remained on the Island, and posted some
of his men on the heights overlooking the 'Akabat-es-Sahim,
with orders to keep up a constant fire from their muskets
during the night. The Benu-Jabir and the Beuu-'l-Musib
also cooperated with Muhenna, who had now charge of all
the fortified posts, with the exception of the two forts and
the two batteries. (As to Muhammad-bin-Khalfan, el-Muhall,
and the Hajariyyin, they started first to Sur, and from thence
to esh-Sharkiyyah, and did not return to M^skat until the
war was over.) Then Muhenna was joined by 500 men
from Tiwa and Halm, and all the valleys of the Benu-Jabir,
under their Amirs 'Adiy-bin-Barakat and ^Abdallah-bin-
Muhammad, es-Salbiyyan, in pursuance of an appeal which
he had sent to them through Salim-bin-Thany, el-Jazy.
These Muhenna posted on the heights overlooking el-Makulla
as far as Ras-el-Baz. Afterwards, he was joined by one hun
dred men of the Benu-'l-Aswad, known as the el-Masakarah, 1
whom he stationed at el-Mitha'ib. Muhenna also collected
many of the Nizariyyah, and then he and Majid-bin-Said, el-
Barwany, consulted together on the advisability of war or
peace between the Seyyid Kais and the sons of the Seyyid
Sultan. They decided on the latter, and wrote a letter to
the Seyyid Kais offering to give him two thousand dollars
monthly, and to allow him to retain the forts which he had
captured, if he would desist from hostilities against his
nephews. (Kais, as stated above, had seized the forts of es-
Sib and el-Khaburah.) The Seyyid replied to the following
effect:—" You have made me a vain proposition, and my
only alternative is war." On the receipt of this commu
nication hostilities began on both sides with musketry.
Parties of Kais^s people would come to Riyam by the ^Akabat-
el-Khail and plunder the houses of the inhabitants, and when
' Probably the " Massakccah" of the late Colonel llamerton, who
estimates the tribe at four thousand fighting men.