The guns used by bahreini sportsmen are similarly inlaid, and the camel saddles of the sheikhs are most beautifully decorated on the pommels in the same style.
"Southern Arabia"
Theodore Bent Mabel Bent
The sheikh has some fine war vessels, called batils, which did good execution about fifty years ago, when the Sultan of Oman and the rulers of El Hasa tried to seize Bahrein, and a naval battle took place in the shallow sea off the coast in which the bahreini were victorious.
"Southern Arabia"
Theodore Bent Mabel Bent
His suit was not acceptable, so he made war on the islands and captured all the wells which supplied the towns on the bigger island; but the guardian deity of the bahreini caused this spring to break out in the sea just before Moharek, and the invader was thus in time repulsed.
"Southern Arabia"
Theodore Bent Mabel Bent