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'XU.. Mo tUon aot in oamoat ribout tho preparations
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for the Mujlla at which tho public announcement of Shaikh
Too*a yoilpcacnt would bo nado* It was fixed TOT cod held
on the morning of Saturday tho oath of uay» ihopo quo
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nuch 'talk in tho moun'tino of solemn paoto between Shaikh
•isa und tho triboo* that thoy would nervor do sort oaqh
othor* that thoy would emigrate In a body und loavo tho

Inland* that thoy had no uao for a Majllo at which thoy
wo..Id alt in company with that objootlonablo person* tho
foroljpior und thalr own ryots* tho Bnhorinch* I 'took
occasion lic(wum Shaikq Hrannd and Abdullah that Shaikh
Ioa vma in no oonso a froo agont* that I saw no nocosslty
for him to loavo Bahrain at all* and In any oaso* If ho
found tho now regime oo dlatnatoful* I oxpoot^hlm to
conault t>io hrltloh aovomnent aq to hlo future place of
rooldenoo*uh<si no doubt* Bombay or ooylan oould bo orraqgod
for him and ndkod "if tho trlboa propound to ibllow hip
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thorof" It tvil potorod out in talk end when eventually

tho evening before tho T.iujllo flhaildia Henad und Abdullah
ordered tho flunnl roprooontatlvoa to attend tho Majlis
which was hold in tho Agunoy* tho Jiunnio did* oo I
undorotnnd* go to Shaikh fio,'i to toko hlo orders on the
subject* It lo reportod that Shaikh *100 ropllod to them
thht Ohailrh Hamad wao hlo ocwi* that ho had brcu^it hia
up* that ho was hie holr -apparent and that tho tribes

had hotter’ oboy Jiio ordora* thuo dhowlng op unexpootod
dogroo of ao(julooconoo In tho proooodlngo* I hayo already
in my tologrm tio.401 datod 09th Hay given a brief spitaae
of What took plapo at tho Majlis end Appendix III to tbl*
Report givos* to tho boat of rooolloottoi* the spo#<ti
1 doilvorod thorojit in rnglltfh and In Arabic*
liaaad oat on my right and Captain Coleridge of n»M#8#
•OydJoan"

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