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SAYYID SAID. 



native island, talked over the insurgents. Bana 

 M'takha afterwards sent back the Arab cannon, 

 saying that he could not afford to keep weapons 

 which ate such vast meals of powder, and acknow- 

 ledged for a consideration the supremacy of Zan- 

 zibar, retaining his power, and promising but 

 never intending to pay an annual tribute of 

 $5000. Hence the Baloch mercenaries speak of 

 their late employer as a king who bought and 

 sold, and who was more distinguished for the 

 arts of peace than for the nice conduct of war. 

 Even his own subjects complained on this occa- 

 sion of his folly in commencing, and of his want 

 of energy in carrying on, the campaign. 



The Sayyid's matrimonial engagements were 

 numerous. In 1827 he married the daughter 

 of the Earman-farma (Governor) of Ears, and a 

 grand-daughter of Eath 'Ali Shah, under an 

 agreement in the marriage contract that the 

 bride might spend every summer with her 

 own family at Bandar Abbas or Shiraz. Dis- 

 gusted with Arab homeliness, and with six years 

 of monotonously hot life at Maskat, she obtained 

 leave, and once in a place of safety she wrote 

 back a strong epistle. It began, ' Ya Dayyus ! 

 ya Mal'un, alluding to the report that Sayyid 

 Khalid had violated the harem of his father, as 



