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been recommended for permanent occupation by the British, as a
naval base in the Persian Gulf. Here the entire British fleet might
safely ride at anchor. Curiously enough, this remarkable spot has
once been occupied by the English under peculiar circumstances^
When the telegraph cable was first being laid from Kurrachi to the
Persian Gulf in 1864, it was taken by what was then thought the
shortest and best line from Gwadur to Cape Musandim. Entering
Malcolm’s Inlet, the wires were stretched across the isthmus of
Maklab, and re-entered the sea in Elphinstone’s Inlet on the other
side. But the drawbacks of the site, arising from the hot and
horrid climate, the sterile neighbourhood, and the suspicions of the
native tribes—all of which have been well described by Sir E.
Goldsmid in his interesting c Telegraph and Travel,’—compelled a
retreat from a course which should never have been adopted ; and
in 1869, the cable was diverted to Cape Task and Henjam. In
the entrance to the Gulf, not far from Cape Musandim, lie small
rocky islands, which have been named the Quoins by English
mariners, from their supposed resemblance to the quoin of a gun.
Further in the Gulf, and about twenty-five miles from the western
extremity of the island of Kishm, are two larger islands, known as
the Great and Little Tomb, 1 the former of which abounds with
antelopes, that were often coursed with greyhounds by the British
officers from Basiduh.
Skirting the southern littoral of the Persian Gulf, we are now
brought into contact with a number of Arab tribes of maritime resi
dence and occupation, inhabiting a lengthy stretch of coast
line from Ras-el-Kheimah on the east, to the promon
tory of El Katr on the west. These tribes have been addicted from
time immemorial to piratical escapades, and to the simultaneous
gratification and exhaustion of their energies in internecine warfare.
Towards the latter end of the eighteenth century they were fused
into an aggressive force of formidable character by the proselytising
influence of the Wahabi movement, which, extending its activity
from the interior of Arabia to the shores of the Gulf, invited the
coast tribes, under the guise of piracy, to attain a secure salvation.
So tempting a propaganda was sure of many converts ; and within
a few years’ time the seas were scoured by hundreds of audacious
buccaneers, who destroyed villages, carried off and sold their inhabi
tants, and faithfully plundered their way to heaven. These tribes
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