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Notes to Chapter Two

70 Kashf al Ghumma, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. 43, pt I,
1874, p. 162, in UK Memorial II, Annex C, no. 2, p. 125 and /, p. 31.
71 Shaikh KhalTfah bin Shakhbut lo the Political Resident, Persian Gulf,
August 1839, in: UK Memorial II, Annex B, no. 5, p. 46 (Bahrain Archives
Booh, no. 117, pp. 26-8).
72 See Kelly, Eastern, pp. 51ff. for details of the Saudi military occupation
of Buraimi in the first half of the 19th century and Miles, Countries,
p. 302.
73 See Lorimer, I-Iistor., pp. 764-72 and UK Memorial I, p. 33.
74 . . and a caravan of 50 people bringing dates from Baraimi to Abu
Dhabi was intercepted by the enemy (Qawasim)" is reported in the
Gazetteer for 1833; Lorimer, Histor., p. 693.
75 See UK Memorial I, p. 33.
76 See footnote 71 and Kelly, Eastern, p. 65.
77 The wider background of this visit, i.e. British support for local
resistance against joint Wahhabi-Egyptian advances on the British
protected areas, is given by Kelly, Eastern, pp. 64-6.
78 See UK Memorial II, Annex B, no. 8, p. 49.
79 Kelly, Eastern, p. 66f.
80 See Lorimer, Histor., p. 771 and Kelly, Eastern, p. 96. The position of the
NaTm soon after the expulsion of the Wahhabis is described by Colonel
S.B. Miles, British Political Agent in Muscat, who visited the oasis in
1875: “They occupy el-Bereymi proper and Su'areh (Sa'arah) and their
possession of the fort enables them lo overawe the whole of the
settlement. Since the time of Seyyid 'Azan they have been practically
uninterfered with by the Muscat Government, but of course owe
allegiance to the present Sultan. The NaTm are at feud with the Beni Yas
who occupy part of el-Bereymi and their hostility is interrupted only by
occasional truces; collisions frequently occurring between them. Of the
two sections of the NaTm one inhabits more particularly el-Jow and
Bereymi, the other el-Dhahireh.” Miles, “On the Route between Sohar
and el-Bereymi in Oman”, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1877),
p. 52, repr. Kelly, Eastern, pp. 95f.
81 See footnote 47. For details on the administration under successive
walis see below, page 109f.
82 See below, pages 59ff and Lorimer, Geogr., pp. 1301ff, for the divisions
and distribution of the NaTm; see also Kelly, Eastern, p. lOOff for their
relationship with the Sultan.
83 This situation becomes obvious in a collection of letters which Ahmad
bin Hilal received from Zayid and other shaikhs. The collection was
found in 1955 and translated on behalf of the British Foreign Office,
which acted as a custodian; in 1976 the laminated originals were
brought back to Abu Dhabi and deposited in the Centre for Documen-
tation and Research; quoted henceforth consistent with Kelly as
“Dhawahir Collection”; see also Kelly, Eastern, pp. 97ff.
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