"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." [‎٣‎٢‎٤] (٦١٢/٤٨٥)

THE J MAMS OF 'OMAN.
Sliehr, 1 who gladly received him. After remaining with him
a few days he expressed a wish to return to his country ;
'Abdu-'l-Habib accordingly provided him with a boat and
sent one hundred armed Nubians to escort him. When he
arrived at M.iskat the Seyyid Said treated him with great
consideration, and from Maskat he started for Julfar. The
Seyyid, moreover, wrote to inform the English of his visit:
that he had now become his and their friend, and had pro
mised to refrain in future from all depredations by sea and
land. Thereupon the English sent Sultan-bin-Sakar much
money, directed him to rebuild Julfar, and enjoined him to
adhere to his resolve of abandoning his malpractices. So
he restored Julfar to its former state.
When Mutlak-el-Mutairy heard of the alliance which had
been contracted between the Seyyid Said and Sultan-bin-
Sakar, of the money which the English had sent to the
latter, and that he had withdrawn from the Wahhaby con
federacy, he collected a large force of the Benu-Yas,
the Benu-Naim, the ezh-Zhawahir, the Benu-Kutb, the
Benu-Kaab and Kulaib, and the esh-Shawamis and their
allies. He also wrote to Hamid-bin-Nasir, el-Ghafiry, and
Muhammad-bin-Nasir, el-Jabry, to join him with their fol
lowers, as soon as they should hear that he had encamped
near Sohar. He accordingly set out and encamped at Sillan
and at' Auhy, where Hamid and Muhammad met him with a
large force. The combined army is said to have numbered
forty thousand men.
'Azzan persuaded of his inability to cope with Miitlak
under these circumstances, and perceiving, moreover, that
his own people leaned in that direction, was obliged to come
to terms with Mutlak, as was also his uncle Muhammad-bin-
1 Probably the esh-Shelir on the south-east coast of Arabia, in lat.
14° 36' 30" N., long. 49° 27' 35" E. It was once a flourishing town,
and the residence of the principal chief of the el-Kusaidy tribe; but
since the chief removed into the interior it has fallen into decay, and is
now a desolate group of houses and huts.