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Notes to Chapter Three

CHAPTER THREE
1 The territorial extent of a wall’s area of responsibility was nowhere well
defined, and therefore the related term wilayah was not current. Such an
administrative assignment was specified only by referring to the place
in which the wd/i resided.
2 The first car was imported to the coast by the Residency Agent, 'Isa bin
'Abdul Latlf in 1928. He brought it in through Ra’s al Khaimah, where
he used it between his summer house on the mainland and the town. He
imported a Ford into Sharjah in 1929 which could be used for the
journey to Dubai on the sabkhah but had to be left outside the town
because the streets there were too narrow. Muhammad bin Ahmad bin
Dalmuk, a prominent merchant in Dubai, brought a car from Bombay in
1930 and gave it to Shaikh SaTd, the Ruler of Dubai, who a year later
imported a Ford himself from Bahrain.
3 The population centres and enclaves which were considered to be part
of the territory of a certain shaikhdom were called "dependencies” in
the correspondence of British officials.
4 Dubai has the one dependency, Hatta, where a wali was maintained at
times; 'Ajman’s main inland dependency is Masfut, also in the Wadi
Hatta. Umm al Qaiwain has no enclave at all; the inland oasis, Falaj al
Mu'alla, is part and parcel of Umm al Qaiwain territory, and because
most of the gardens there were always the private property of the ruling
family, the small oasis was administered like an estate, not like a
dependency; a slave of the household was usually in charge there.
5 See above pages 68ff for a description of this tribe and a statement
regarding the Qawasim in Lorimer, Geogr., pp. 1547f.
6 See Lorimer, Geogr., p. 1759f.
7 Salih was the son of a slave wife of Saqr bin Rashid (1777-1803). See
Lorimer, Hislor., p. 765 and for the following pp. 756ff.
8 See letter no. 79 of 26 Sep. 1900 by the Residency Agent in Sharjah to the
Political Resident in Bushire; India Office Records (IOR) Persian Gulf
Political Residency and Agency Archives, Series R/15/1, Collection 244:
"Correspondence regarding succession of Chief of Ras al Khaimah
1900-1928”. For a guide to this group of archival material see Tuson,
Penelope, The Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the
Persian Gulf, IOR R/15, India Office Records, Guides to Archive Groups,
HMSO, London, 1979.
9 He applied several times through the Residency Agent for a set of the
treaties; if this had been supplied to him, this would have been as good
as a formal recognition. One of the main reasons why Salim bin Sultan
was not formally recognised was his connection with Abu Musa and his
entitlement to income from the island’s oxide mines, for which a German

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