"مذكرة حول مطالبة تركيا بالسيادة على السواحل الشرقية للبحر الأحمر والجزيرة العربية بالكامل، ومطالبة مصر بالسيادة على الساحل الغربي بالكامل للبحر الأحمر أيضاً بما في ذلك الساحل الإفريقي من السويس حتى رأس عسير." [و‎‎١‎٠] (٧٠/١٩)

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i( Aden Pilot," p. 63.
the Sheriff of Mocha, with whom he concluded a
Commercial Treaty ; and he then proceeded to enter
into negotiations for a Treaty with the proprietor
and head of the Arab tribes inhabiting Zeyla, Seid
Mahomed Bar, Commander-in-chief of the Sheriff's
army at Mocha, whose family had for years possessed
Zeyla under the Government of Mocha, to whom
he paid a yearly sum.
This Treaty was concluded on the 3rd September,
but the Chief of Zeyla wished it not to be known
that he had entered into such a Treaty until the
absence of Sheriff Hussain.
This Treaty contained a stipulation similar to that
contained in the Treaty with Tadjoura, namely, that
no Treaty should be concluded by the Government
of Zeyla without the previous knowledge of the
Government of Aden, whilst the British authorities
in return promised to do all in their power to assist
the Government of Zeyla in improving his com
mercial resources.
By Article V of this Treaty, the Government of
Zeyla made over to the English Government the
Tlsland of Aubad, or Aybat, as a harbour for their
ships and vessels, without any prohibition whatever.
But the island itself, and another one close adjoin
ing called Saad el Din, or Sadaldin, was visited by
Captain Burton in 1855, and he described them as
two small patches of seagirt sand. He found no
one resident upon either of them, and he stated that
they appeared to be simply a resort for sea-gulls,
and that they "supplied Zeyla in the season with
thousands of gulls' eggs—a great luxury."
Captain Playfair observes, in his " History of ^
Arabia Felix or Yemen," page 165, that It should
not be forgotten that, while these events occurred,
the whole Province of Yemen, to which this portion
of the coast of Africa had formerly been, and had
since become a dependency, was in a state of anarchy ;
that it had been evacuated by the Egyptians ; that
the Imaum of Senna had lost the Tehama, which
was usurped by the Beni Aseer and the Sheriffs of
Aboo-Areesh, while they had not extended their arms
to Africa; and that the Governments of Zailah and
Tadjoura were in the hands of their hereditary
Chiefs, who owned no subjection to any Foreign
Power, and consequently were perfectly competent to
cede any part of their territories."