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unrighteousness - title phrase la perhaps Inappropriate
as tho Akhwan oonnlder thenaelvos highly righteous - and
be on the safe side* It will bo aeon that Bln Baud
appears to have told tbs Dovaalr BhelfehJthat he would

eitbor (a) uuo hla Influence to support then In the event
or their dooicllng to resist taxation or (b) give then
suitable habitat so that they ooulO. threaten to leave
Bahrain* and do so ii* nooosaary#
3. It way not be out of plaoo to mention that this
throat of leaving Bahrain in an old plonk In the Ddwaslr
plutforn whloh they hove used with ouooooo for years
boforo Bln Baud oono to the front* I well reneraber tellini

Shoikh loo when T van at Bahrain that «uoh throats wore
o’' bluff and that they would never quit the valuable
lands and houoea they havo in Bahrain, but that if by
any ohanoo they wore foolish enough to do eo he oould
easily get other peoples to occupy the lands and villages*
But Sheikh Iua in addition to bolng very obstinate is
exceedingly pusillanimous and timid and hoo always

foared tho Dowaoir <uVl allowed then to bounce him* By
throat,a of thin sort they obtained the dlooontinuonoe
of the snail diving tax nontioned b7 tho Political Agent'*'-
4 • It will be aeon that the Political Agent points out
that thoro will be a great differonoe If the reforms are
introduood voluntarily by tho BheiVh or under pressure

by uc*. In the latter oaso, as Major Daly says, everything
will ho tho oubjoot of great criticism, and we should
have to bo vory careful to make oertaln that any reforn
we auggout would offootivoly remove the cause for
grlovanoo. Jiujor Daly accordingly asks for tine to
study tho prosont state of taxation and the nature and
offoot of Improvements which oould be introduced# He
suggests that ho oould go into the nattor with less
ohanoo of causing u atir at tho oonoluslon of tho