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W <»?»a Arab, wbiia on th* Ouatou J.tty

and Xu,bo*t* ifad wpvt<> tha jatvv »«/.found two ParaXana and one
arab *o baity beaten about that their recovery a*peored improb­
able. ; Throughout tho whole of thU didtHrbanoo, l only act­
ually men with firearm* and ho was firing powder. Ho

woe f Hajdl • ,Ball ammunition, however, woe bo log Xlrod la the
Davaor whfn th© tight wae In progreda . While going through the
Bazaar tro oollooiod any latblu tre 4017.
On the following morning Yuauf Konoo and 1 were tally­
ing in my house of the ovonta or the day betcre *nd everything
appeared ^uini. Wo dtoidod to go to hie oifioe to hear what
people had to nay about it, but found on our wuy, that the Kh«n
between my house and hi a office, in whioh hie Persian ooolie*
Hypiwan oloaod and bolted, lie hal the door opened and naked
vhai Iho trouble was and they told ua that the row had begun
again. On emerging from tho Khan we found a orowd of none 30
of 40 Auraba, about 3C£ of whom were armed with latliia , and three
or four with rifles, dhouting around qoaaibi 'n offloe. Vuauf
Kanoo want to aea what van afoot, and w.u> 1U told tnat the per-
aland were all armed and liad oloacd their a hope and were mob-
ilined in the Khan* of /vbua Uabl and ^bul yoalni and the Ifajdia

wore mobilising to defend themaelvea . Abdulla ^oaaibi waa in
hi a olfloe Ax id fudul «uid 1 went to nee him and get him to «iulot
down the orowd of hojdia. lie waa however absolutely hopeless
aa ho he4,no control over himaelf and wad 1 uming and raging like
a mad man, in fact behaved in Just the ;way to set thinge
ablaze • gust an we were talking to him one man got Up ©A. a .
bench end began to 'Hawed* and eaid he wad off to raiee .the
dla of huharra-i. 1 got hold of him and tol4 ^osaibi to fiUtjkla.
in hid offloe and keep him there ad he wan a public daage*. gqd.
ttlght easily atari a fresh row. While Yusuf and ^oealbl. h*4. «D(
Argument about what woo to be done, 1 and one or two other*
!
the crowd and threw thaa>4mr,
helping me, collected lathis from
iu the. baok of the Khan, Yusuf Kan00 and 1 then went
the basaar to nee If it w\a really true that the Persian fkOM,;
were,