text:  It was reported to the Bombay Administration in October 1836 by Captain Haines (then in command of the Palinurus at Makullah) that great insecurity to navigation prevailed on both the African and Indian shores at the entrance of the Red Sea; and one particular instance was adduced in which the crew of a Muscat vessel wrecked on the coast near Aden were subjected to such inordinate extortion by Sultan Mahassan that "the master in anger or despair burned his vessel