text:  The loss of the assailants was no more than fifteen killed and wounded--that of the Arabs more than ten times that number including a nephew of the Sultan and a chief of the Houshibee tribe who fought gallantly and received a mortal wound; considerable bloodshed was also occasioned by the desperate resistance made by the prisoners taken on Seerah in the attempt to disarm them during which the greater part of them cut their way through their captors and got clear off