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suose comanions came oer the to of the hill a٦d ased us to come, and Sh
Salman as out thin hunting as slaying a١١his small hunting lodge and he
receied us ery confidently and inited us ١o sil and drin coffee. ٨nd after he
ased us about hat e ere doing e shon hin some ol shreds hich had been
collecled and he became ery intersted because you no mosl of the cole hen
you sho them otsherds they mean nothing to them. They ould thro aay. For
their designs some of these olsherd had been 4 years old, there had been some
fron different eriods. And he realied as ery fe eole do, jusl the fact on ho
eole had lied in the old days.

A : Wlat year, are e taling ٨bont

B : thin it as the first year 194 and he inited us to go in his car ith him and
he sat on the bac and said ill tae you to laces here ‫ ﺁ‬hae seen otsherds on
the ground. A١l that afternoon e droe round arious laces all laces here e
found otsherds. And he ould al around try to find interesting otsherds,
olsherds ith designs on them ith glae on them. So e scattered in the desert.
Sh. Salman, ro. Globe and me ic u otsherds and e comared hat ottery
had found and disucssed the age and he ould tell us the traditiosn of the laces
ere eole had sometime lied and some ere ne, hen the eole had lied
there and left years before. Well he as an amateur archaeologist in fact just as
much as e ere looing for the history of Bahrain. There ere another car and to
trucs they droe and ut a caret on the desert and after e had looed around
iced u some otsherds for sometime e got bac and sat on the caret and drun
coffee and discussed hat e ere finding. And thin Sh. Salman had really
enjoyed doing this as e did. And e learned a lot that is my main memory of Sh.
Salman. We met him of course before and after many times ceremonially. He ould
loo to us ith a tinle in his eyes. And no he as remembering those days
hen e ere archaeologists go together in the southern desert. hae ery great
resect for the late Sh. Salman Bin Hamad A halifa. He as a great man.

A : Did he isit you on the sites hen yo ere oring in Balrain

B : That too yes. He came Ooh had hoto ith him in Oalat A1 Bahrain 19. When
e ere oening one of the best Tub coffin and he came along to see it He came
frequently and he isit us at Barbar too and his family. am sure Sh. Hamad bin sa
ill remember coming hen he as small boy to our ecaations. So Sh. Salman as
ery interested in our or and understood it ery ell. We belieed that Oalat A
Barhain as a fort built by the Portug‫ﻫ‬ese and that as eery body ould tell that
ecet Sh. Salman. He said there had been a fort before the Portuguese built they had
added on to the fort. Well it is no non, there are rtaces of three forts in ihch
the Portuguese is only the last one so sometime felt Sh. Salman as a better
archaeologist than e ere.

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