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Notes to Chapter Two
04 Both quotations from the Dhawahir Collection. The people of Hajarain
in the Wacli Hatta were usually at enmity with those of Masfut, and
looked to Dubai for protection. It became a dependency of Dubai at the
beginning of this century, and is now called Hatta after the wadi it is in.
See also below, page 66.
05 See Sir Percy Cox, “Some Excursions in Oman" Geographical Journal,
1925, LXVI, p. 207. A lot of details concerning the economy of the oasis,
its water supply etc. are given by this perceptive traveller, who was the
Political Resident in the Gulf from 1904 to 1913 and before that Political
Agent in Muscat from 1099 to 1904.
06 Lorimer, Histor., p. 753 and below, page 66.
87 In this context it is interesting that Cox travelled in December 1905 as
far as Tbri under the protection of the Ruler of Abu Dhabi.
00 It involved the British Government as the authority responsible for the
conduct of foreign affairs of the Trucial Ruler, the Saudi Government,
the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, the oil companies which had
concessionary agreements, i.e. the subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum
Company, Petroleum Development Trucial Coast (PD(TC)) and the
Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO); see also below pages 302ff.
89 See Lorimer, Geogr., p. 1425ff, footnote.
90 Prepared by the Saudi Government in accordance with the agreement of
30 July 1954 and submitted in September 1955 to the other party. For a
detailed analysis of its content see Kelly, Eastern, pp. 209ff. The full title
is: Memorial of the Government of Saudi Arabia: Arbitration for the
Settlement of thcTerritorial Dispute between Muscat and Abu Dhabi on
the one side and Saudi Arabia on the other, ah 1374/ad 1955. See also
footnote 19.
91 Lorimer, Geogr., p. 264 and p. 1368 for statement that Buraimi is
"independent" and about the extent of "Independent Oman".
92 According to Lorimer, Geogr., p. 1302 there were about 10,500 non-
nomadic NaTm in the area—excluding those who went to Qatar and
Bahrain several generations ago. 4,500 lived in the Sultanate of Oman,
3,500 in shaikhdoms of the Trucial Coast and 2,500 lived in this district
of "Independent Oman". Beside there were about 2,500 beduin NaTm.
93 See UK Memorial I, p. 61 and footnote 7; see also Kelly, Eastern, p. 48.
94 See UK Memorial I, p. 62 and II, Annex B, no. 9, p. 53 and no. 12, p. 58.
95 UK Memorial I, p. 62.
96 Saqr’s representative in Dhank was during the 1950s a slave wall by the
name of Salim bin Samsun.
97 Already in the preceding years the contact between Muscat and the
various factions of the NaTm had improved, and many of the minor
shaikhs had visited the Sultan and received presents: and Sayyid Tariq,
the half brother of the Sultan, had in return visited Buraimi in 1945; see
UK Memorial I, p. 62f.
98 See Kelly, Eastern, p. 152ff.
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