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AND THE MASKAT POLITICAL AGENCY FOR THE YEAR 1908. 103
The last Arab visitor of distinction to Koweit was Ahmad Pasha-az-
Zahair, from whose family the Sheikhs of Zubair were formerly selected,
lie arrived on 23rd December and left again for Basrah the next day. The
object of his visit was the sale to Sheikh Mubarak of his date garden property
known as Fadhagiya.
Many Bedouin Chiefs have visited the Political Agent during the past
nine months. The chief visitor was Muhammad-bin-Iiithlain, the Ajman
Ciiicf, who had not before visited the Political Agent.
No decisive steps, with regard to quarantine, have been taken during the Quarautu.#.
past nine months. Discussions, both verbal and written, on the question have
been frequent and occasionally rather bitter. No serious efforts to enforce
quarantine have been made by the Sheikh or his servants. The arrival of
the steam launch Lewis Pelly affords a simple method of settling the
controversy by discontinuing the visits of the fast mail steamers and bringing
mails and passengers in whom the British Agency is interested to Koweit
from Fao. The matter is under consideration.
The charge of the Agency was held by Major S. G. Knox throughout the P litical
nine months under report. changed.
S. G. KNOX, Major,
Political Agent, Koiveit.