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Notes to Chapter Six
G The term "urbanisation" is used here to indicate the change in certain
customs, particularly the tendency of more and more tribal people to
winter in Abu Dhabi town rather than in the desert.
7 The number of inhabited settlements varied and sources therefore give
different figures; see e.g. Kelly, Eastern, p. 32.
8 See ibid and UK Memorial, Annex E, pp. 239-43; the comparative table
shows the compositions of the LTwa settlements from west to east. The
figures which were obtained from three sources for the Memorial date
from 1952 to 1955.
9 See also above, page 115ff.
10 A list of Abu Dhabi subjects who own pearling boats on the coast and
palms in the LTwa is given in the UK Memorial II, Annex E, no. 2, p. 244.
The names do not always correspond with those given by other sources.
See also the list of the names of places of residence of the people from
whom pearling tax was collected in 1950 by the Ruler’s representative
on Dalma island, Hilal Abu al Ghafiri al Falahi, ibid., Annex G, no. 5, p.
282.
11 In the 1930s a sack of rice weighing 18 man (72kg) was worth 6 Riyal, a
live goat cost 3/4 Riyal, 1 man of sugar cost half a Riyal, which increased
to 25 during the Second World War.
12 See also above, page 120f.
13 Examples: An expedition in winter 1936/7 in the W. and S.W. of Abu
Dhabi and to Khaural 'Udaid on which occasion Shaikh Zayid bin Sultan
and sixteen retainers accompanied two PD (TC) geologists and a British
interpreter, Hajji 'Abdullah Williamson. Also a party visited the western
area of the Abu Dhabi shaikhdom in April 1949 to investigate a report of
ARAMCO activities in that area. The party was made up of the Political
Officer Trucial Coast, H.M. Jackson of PD(TC), two Agency guards, five
drivers, one cook and seven guards who accompanied Shaikh
Hazza' bin Sultan. Also two members of the Locust Research team based
in Sharjah journeyed by camel from al 'Ain to the LTwa in January 1952.
Shaikh Mubarak bin Muhammed was detailed by Shaikh Zayid to
accompany them and the large group of camel men.
14 This was done, for instance, by the person in charge of the Ruler’s post
at al Mariyah in the LTwa.
15 As reported after a visit to LTwa in 1955 by an oil company official.
16 In Dubai the two types were taxed differently. See Lorimer, Histor. pp.
2286L
17 The following description of the system of financing the pearling
industry is based on the author’s enquiries as well as on Lorimer,
Histor., p. 2227ff, on an early draft of an article on Bahrain published by
Charles Belgrave in the Times in June 1934 (IOR L/P&S/12/3762
"Publicity in the Gulf 1932-47’’) and on a passage about the economic
interdependence of the members of the pearling community in the
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