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In actual foot they wove ouoh nuupioiouu of tho othor
ami ready to take up any quarrel or Intrigue ugulnut tho other.
On my arrlvul on my ocoond vlalt tho Shaikh exproaitd
a deelro to oeo mo about two matteru. The flrot wao tho
Dowaoir tribe affair, on which I have reported uoparatoly, the
oooond, Shaikh Khallaf. Ho produced a pa tition, with
apparently hundrodo of Bignuturuu, in which tho Shin community

proteeted aguinot tho rapacity and injuotice of thoir (Jusi and
roqueoted that a oaoond <lazl, whom thoy named, ohould aloo have
canoe roferrod to him.
Shaikh Hamad again auggeotod that ho hlmuclf wao on
the boot of termo with Shaikh Khallaf but thero wao no doubt
that thoro wao much fooling agalnot him, and ha aokod mo to get
Shaikh Khallaf romoved.
Shaikh Xhallaf wao one of tho biggoot oupportoro of
Uajor Daly, and thuo while lUialkh Hamad dooirod mo to pull the
oheetnuto out of the firo for him by getting rid of tho tyi*!,

my doing oo would givo colour to a theory which hun boon ouggest-
•ed in plaoeo that whatever ilajor Paly did wuu wrong and that it
1b a safe game to play to go ugulnat hio oupportoro.
Any euoh ouggcotlon both the Political Agent and I
were anxious to negative.
Aooordlhgly I nent for Shaikh Khallaf and told him
that he muot get on good termo with Shaikh Harnud and that until
oiroumotanoee wpro hotter 1 would otrongly advloi him to go on
a pilgrimage hlmoelf. Major Barrett had told mo that
ohaikh Khallaf, oonfidont that Shaikh Hamad could not ?° without
had onoe stuted to him uo one of tho oolutione of tho
I eltuatlon that ho would go on a pilgrimago to Korbala.
I rooallcd thie otateiaont to him and auggeoted it
■ wae
; : tho beat thing ho oould do, at tho oumo time maintaining good

relatione with Ohoikh Hamad. Ho finally agi'uod to do thio
^ 1 8(1(110 8nw Shaikh Hamad, told him of tho oolution and
inotruoted