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the enemy’s army, he led his men to battle. The encounter took place in the 
quarter of el-Nakhl, ‘Omeyr and his followers issuing without opposition 
from the vicinity of the chief mosque. In the contest Sultan-bin Himyer 
was killed, and the enemy’s forces were routed and dispersed ; some were 
slain, some burnt, some captured, some wounded, and the rest fled they knew 
not whither. In this manner the whole population of the place was disposed 
of, and the town itself was completely burnt. The Christians remained in 
occupation of the Fort of Sohar, and the Amir ( Omeyr returned to Semail 
intoxicated with joy. 
At this period, Makhzum-bin Fellah was in possession of the fort of 
Yankal. He seized two of them (F), and ordered one of his slaves to execute 
one of these two. The slave bared his sword to strike, on which the 
prisoner prayed him to protect him. He did not heed him and struck one 
blow. A second time he cried in vain for mercy, and when he was about 
to strike a third blow, the man appealed for protection to God. Makhzum, 
on this, rushed on him to gag his mouth, at the same instant the slave’s 
sword descending struck the hand of Makhzum, who died from the effects 
of the wound in seven days. As for the prisoner, the slave dragged him 
away thinking him dead, but he was found by one of the towns-people who 
succoured him, and he recovered of his wounds and lived for some time after 
that. This happened three months after the capture of Sohar. 
When Nebhan heard of his brother’s death, he rode from Makaniyat 
to Yankal, and placing there a Wazir returned to the former place. Since 
he had left Bahia for el-Dhahireh, a period of thirty months had elapsed. 
After that Nebhan-bin Fellah went a second time to Yankal, leaving some 
of his men in the fort of Makaniyat. But the people of the latter place 
were weary of his tyranny and oppression, and planned to expel him from 
the place. So they sent an emissary to the Amir ‘Omeyr-bin Himyer and 
to Seyf-bin Mohammed, asking their aid. Both of them marched with 
their followers to Makaniyat, and entered the fort without opposition or 
bloodshed. After remaining there some days, they rode with a portion of 
their forces to Yankal. When Nebhan-bin Fellah became aware of this, he 
feared for his safety, and mounting on horseback fled with only four 
attendants and without baggage to the town of his maternal uncles of the 
el-Riyayeseh. This was twelve days before the end of Safar, 1026 A. H. 
[A. D. 1617.] 
The Amir £ Omeyr and Seyf-bin Mohammed remained for some time 
at Yankal. The Amir then made over the lands to the rightful possessors 
to freely enjoy the produce thereof, and returned to Makaniyat. He 
enquired of the inhabitants what Nebhan was in the habit of taking from 
them. They told him that he took one half the produce of the date trees and 
one quarter of the yield of the sown ground. The Amir ‘Omeyr reduced 
