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By R. Bayly Winder
A desirable historical past of the advance of Saudi Arabia durig the nineteenth century.
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Hastily demanding of his crew, whether they would not perish by the annihilation of their foes, and being answered by their war-cry in defiance, he rushed below, attached a match to his powder-barrel, returned on deck, and sprang upon the poop with his only son in his arms. The match ignited, and the vessels still firmly grappling, burst together into a thousand atoms, and were hurled through the air in the midst of a volcano of smoke and flames ... When the frightful explosion had subsided, nothing was seen but a black cloud on the ocean, enveloping all around like a pall, and darkening the very sky.
2 With the surrender, the Saudi state came to an end. Some towns, notably Hariq and Hilwah south of Dir'iyah, tried to hold out briefly, but to little avail. Ibrahim's Western-style troops prevailed. The troops fanned out in various directions, and the central districts sent envoys to the victorious pasha as a sign of submission. Only in the more distant provinces, like Oman, were the Wahhabis, leaderless and adrift, left for the time being alone. The surrender took place at Ibrahim's camp, somewhere outside the walls of the Saudi capital, Dir'iyah.
Sadleir (Sadlierp 1 Vol. 11, pp. 198-202. For further information on Rahmah see Cornwall, pp. 516517, al-Nabhani, Al-Bahrain, p. 151; Ibn Bishr, 11, p. 28; Buekingham, pp. 356-358; Lorimer, I, pp. 183, 185, 195, 206-207. 2 Saldana, Nejd, p. 9; Persian GulJ, p. 93. 3 Readers interested in Sadleir's life before and after his historie trip are referred to F. M. Edwards' twelve-page biography and appreeiation published in 1957. It is Mr. Edwards who had drawn the world's attention to the eorreet spelling of Sadleir's name, whieh has usually been rendered Sadlier.