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POE THE YEAB 1917.
Id May Kuwait dhow “ Muafiq*' with a cargo of wood and coffee, eto.a
from Calicut ran ashore at RaahidL
Wrcok*.
8cveral attempts made by His Majesty's
hips and by the Nakhuda to bring the dhow into deep water failed on account
of bad weather. Tho major portion of the cargo looted by the Baluchis was
yocovered. Some of tho cargo was reported to have been robbed by two men,
subjects of Jlis Highness the 8ultan of Muscat, and taken to that place. The
political Agent, Muscat, was asked £o recover the price of the stolen articles.
After several attempts to refloat tho dhow had proved futile, a Nakhuda of
Charbar undertook to bring the dhow to Charbar for Rs. 2,600. The arrange­
ments were still in progress when the year closed.
On the 22nd December reports were received that two dhows *€ Fatehul-
jCarim ” and “ Yithalpussa, ” owned by two merchants of Karachi, ran aground
at Tank on account of a heavy storm,
The following ships of the Royal Navy
NftYJ.
called at Charbar during the year:—
u Buryalus/* “ Philomel,” “ Pyramus,” “ Britomart,” “ Bramble ” and
« Muzafer.”
Gwadtje.

Munshi Abdur Rahim was Native Assistant, Gwadur, throughout the
year. His retention in Government service was sanctioned for a furthur period
of one year from 1st July 1917.
Saiyid Saif bin Badar has been the
WaU.
"Wall of Hre Highness the Sultan of
Muscat,
The management of His Highness the Sultan’s customs has remained in
the hands of Seth Muhammad Rah moo
Mowji who spends a greater part of the
year at Unseat superintending the customs at that place while his men work
at Gwadur.
All disputes among British Indian subjects were settled by arbitration on
Judical the spot or by correspondence with the
Director at Karachi.
Ten slaves took refuge in Gwadur during the year All of them_were sent
by the Native Assistant to Karachi at
Skvot.
Government expense.
In the month of November, Mir Dost Muhammad, a brother of Mir
Ahmad Khan of Bahn, who is subsidised by this Department, came to Gwadur
with some following. He was able to kidnap a freed slave named Jumak
serving in a country craft owned by a British Indian subject. It appears
that the Wali did not take any steps to interfere in the matter. The Clerk-in-
Charge, Telegraph Station at Charbar, is making endeavours to get the slave
back
Karachi, G. E. GUNTBR,
] Director, Persian Qulf Telegraphs,
^ 30th March 1913. in Political Charge Mekran Coast.

^r' 4- Cane's report. No. 15, dated the 7tk January 1918, on tie condition oj
the districts between Biyabau and Bakn.
Petty squabbles of no real or political importance have occurred—but
^ul always oocur at different times among these half-civilised tribes.
^ In January there was a slight unrest at Rudhue but nothing of impor-

Tbe ill-feeling between the late Mam Khan and his brothers was amicably
•wtted, or at least moderated, by the former’s permitting the latte to divide
; Jaimes of the district, and by his granting them half of his possessions
lb® event of his predeceasing them.