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Notes to Chapter Four

87 On customs in Dubai seo below, page 249.
88 See letters no. 86 and 92 dated 8 and 16 July 1899 from the Residency
Agent in Lingah to the Resident in Bushire; reprinted in UK Memorial II,
Annex B, no. 44, p. 120. For further details on this German trading
company sec Plass, Jens B., England pp. 395ff.
89 See also below, page 174.
90 During the rule of Shaikh Sultan bin Zayid in Abu Dhabi a monopoly for
the purchase of dried sharks and turtles from fishermen operating on
the coast between Ra's Ghanadhah and Yasat was given for 290
Rupees to a Persian and his brother; see UK Memorial II, Annex G, no. 7,
p. 284. The trade in oyster shells was the beginning of the trading
activities of Robert VVoenckhaus & Co. in the Gulf. During the last years
of the 19th century this German firm had agents in Dubai and Sharjah
who also visited Dalma during the pearling season to buy shells. For this
trade they paid an export fee of M.T. Dollars 13 for a hundred sacks. The
company tried—unsuccessfully because of British intervention—to
secure mining rights for red oxide on Abu Musa, for which the Ruler of
Sharjah collected royalties. Concessions for mining red oxide were also
given at different times to different concessionnaires for the Tunbs, Sir
Bu Na'alr, Dalma and Sir Bani Yas; see Plass, England, pp. 410ff.
91 This practice continued during the 1920s and after; see Kelly, Eastern, p.
133 and UK Memorial II, Annex J. no. 1, p. 320.
92 After the death of Zayid bin Khallfah politics in Abu Dhabi depended
very much on the relationship of the A1 Bu Falah Ruler of the time with
the ManasTr.
93 See e.g. the assessment of Sa’Id bin Taimur’s rule by Townsend, John,
Oman. The Making of a Modern Slate, London, 1977.
94 See also below, pages 156ff.
95 People often talk about a certain person by adding that “his father was a
good man. he was a mu(aivivaV'
96 In one such case a woman of the Hawamil subsection of the Bani Yas
claimed possession of some jewellery, a rifle and a date garden as
inheritance from her late husband; her claim was confirmed.
97 See for examples of some such cases UK Memorial I, p. 69.
98 See UK Memorial I, pp. 69-71 and a selection of examples of such cases
in II, Annex F, pp. 249ff; they are mostly taken from the Dhawahir
Collection of letters from or to Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hilal, vvfi/i for
the A1 Bu Falah in the Buraimi area for 40 years.
99 See Heard-Bey, Asian Affairs, 1974, p. 278.

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1 In this chapter the name al Bahrayn is used as it is by Arab geographers
such as Yaqut and Abu al Fida’; see also above, Chapter Two note 13.

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