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6 ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE PERSIAN GULF POLITICAL RESIDENCY
Unless unforeseen circumstances combine to make the matter more press­
ing, it would seem that the simplest solution of the quarantine difficulty will
be the suspension of the fast mail service to Kowcit, the post being served by
the fortnightly slow mail, and in the alternate week the new Agency steam
launch Lewis Polly being utilised to meet the fast mail at Fao and take over
the Kowcit post.
Major Knox, who vacated the post of First Assistant at Bushire to ini­
tiate the Kowcit Agency in August 1904, has now applied for long furlough
to Europe. The personality of the Sheikh makes the work of this post of a
difficult and delicate type and Major Knox deserves much credit for the
patience and success with which lie has filled it.

P. Z. COX, Major,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.