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PREFACE-

The Precis of Ncjd Affairs from 1804 to 1904, based as it is mainly on the
Proceedings of the Foreign Department and the Volumes of the Political De­
partment, Bombay, is considerably indebted to the precises drawn up previously
by Captain Talboys Wheoler, Major ITondersoii, Mr. Plowden, and Captain
Shakespoar.

This prdcis dwells more upon tho Wahabi movements that th rcatened the
peace of the Persian Gulf and the Oman seas, than the details of the inter­
nal affairs of Ncjd, for which a reference is invited to the following works :—
(1) History of the Wanabis in Arabia and India by E. Behatsck— page
274 of Volume XIV—Journal, Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic
Society.
(2) Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabis by Burckhardt, 1830.
(3) Bombay Government Records Selections No. XXIV, 1856—pages
428-460.

The recent affairs of Nejd complicated with those of ELoweit are treated
more minutely in the Precis of Koiceit Affairs.

5th October 1904. J. A. SALDANA.