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conditions arc restored. Deboi suffered especially from tlie absence of mail
steamers.
Early in the year some relatives of Bin Saud, who were hostile to him,
Aba Dimbi Salman-el-Araif and his brother Fahad-el-
Araif, took refuge with the Shaikh of Abu
Dhabi after having been driven out of Has9a by Bin Saud. As they intrigued
against Bin Saud and tried to organize an expedition against him, while in the
vicinity of Abu Dhabi, their presence there was annoying to Bin Saud. The
Shaikh was accordingly requested to make them, leave his territory if ho could
not keep them quiet in it. They had left as a matter of fact before this letter
was received: but the Shaikh took the warning to heart, and when the El-Araif
brothers came a second time, in December, he would not keep them in his
territory.
In May, as one of the results of the intrigues of the Shaikh of Umm-ul-
Qaiwain referred to above, the headman of Fujairah, who is always kicking
against the rule of the Qawasim, attempted to start with an armed force by
sea to join the Shaikh of Aba Dhabi in an expedition against the Qawasim. He
was, however, restrained from doing so by the Residency Agent.
Khan Bahadur Abdul Latif was Residency Ag$nt throughout the year;
he has done very good work.

A. P. TREVOR, Major,
Deputy Political Resident, Persian Gulf.