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Notes to Chapter Seven

300 people each and aboul 40 smaller ones; see Lorimcr, Hislor., p. 656.
74 One such example of 1835 was described by Lorimer as: “an expiring
flicker of the old piratical spirit, which this time flamed up, not among
the subjects of the Qasimi Shaikh, but in the formerly well-behaved and
law-abiding tribe of the Bani Yas.’’ Hislor., p. 682.
75 See IOR, R/15/1/236.
76 Ibid., April 1931.
77 Ibid., April 1931.
78 See Thesiger, Arabian Sands, p. 263 and 265. The high prices which
were current during the 1920s were reached again in the late 1940s, i.e.
between 1,000 and 1,500 Rupees for a negro. But because it was very
much more difficult to sell free Arabs they fetched a very much lower
price (400 Rupees in the 1920s; only 230 Rupees were paid for two
sayyids from the Hadhramaut who were to be sold by a Shaikh in
Hamasah to 'Ali al Murri). See for the early reference letter no. 539 from
the Residency Agent to the Political Resident of 11 July 1920 in IOR,
R/15/1/239. “Miscellaneous Dec. 1904-Nov. 1922."
79 One such instance would be if someone’s camel had earlier in the year
strayed into and damaged someone’s date garden and the owner of the
camel was sentenced to pay the owner of the garden so many man of his
dates at harvest time.

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1 In 1969 Dubai’s production was half a million tons, while Abu Dhabi
exported 28.9 million long tons; by 1974 Dubai had reached 13 million
but Abu Dhabi had increased to 68 million. The income from oil was
estimated at 3,000 million U.S. Dollars in Dubai in 1980 as compared to
15,000 million Dollars for Abu Dhabi.
2 “Notwithstanding the separate signature on behalf of its chief Hazza'-
bin-Za'al, then a minor, of the General Treaty of Peace in 1820, Dibai
appears to have existed ... as a dependency of the Abu Dhabi
Shaikhdom." (Lorimer, Histor., p. 772). See also for the following, ibid,
pp. 772-5, Annexure no. 3: "International History of the Dibai
Principality".
3 This incident is described by Lorimer, Histor., p. 765 as follows: “This
violence on the part of Shaikh Khalifah (of Abu Dhabi) was highly
prejudicial to his own interests, for it led to the secession from Abu
Dhabi to Dibai, during the pearl fishery, of a large number of Bani Yas of
the Al Bu Falasah section. Dibai . . . seems to have been readily
surrendered by the individual who then governed it ... to the seceders;
and they, in the following autumn, were joined there by the bulk of their
relatives, returning from the pearl banks. The secession was permanent,

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