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HISTORY OF THE SHEIK OF BUSHIRE. 
people, is swallowed up by the consideration, that their new masters in 
every change are Persians, and that the rule of Arabs is over. A feeling 
which naturally did not conciliate the Arab community to any successor 
of their Sheik. The general impression was not ill-expressed by an old 
Arab, whom we found fishing along the shore. “ What is our Gover- 
“ nor? A few days ago he was a merchant in the Bazar ; then he was 
“ our Governor: yesterday he was chained by the neck in prison; to- 
“ day he is our Governor again; what respect can we pay him ? 
“ The Governor that is to be, was a few years ago a poor scribe; and 
“ what is worse he is a Persian. It is clear that we Arabs shall now go 
“ to the wall, and the Persians will flourish.” 
