"(F 69) الملف 82/26 أ.ب.و.ك - امتياز نفط مسقط‎" [و‎‎٤‎٤] (١٦٣/١١٥)

J
-i^uract from Muscat Diary . • 1, dated the 4th.
1926.
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9. Reference diary entry ^o. 278 of 1925, Messrs. Lees
and ^ray, geologists in the employ of the An^lo-tersian
Oil Company, or more correctly of the D f Arcy Exploration
Company --the parent Company responsible for all ex
ploration work, -- returned to Muscat from their two
months 1 travelling on the 26th December 1925.
I attach a sket chm ap showing the places visited by
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them.
l&r. Lees informs me that they had a most successful
expedition and were universally well treated by the
Shaixchs and tribesmen,
Captain jiccles, Co/fiaiandi .a^ the Muscat Infantry,
acco. i.panied the party and superintended all the social
and political part oi their travels, while Abdulla
Williamson (an Snjlishman who nas become Muslim and who
is employed. ^ the An^lo-Persian Gil Company as a "Sales
Superintendent") assisted him and looked after the trans
port.
Mr. Lees was naturally reticent on the subject of
oil and I equally naturally did not question him. It
would appear however that no indications of oil were
found. Imo minerals' were found except two worked out
copper mines, whose existence even was not known to the
neighbouring villagers. Mr. Lees told me that the
persons who had found the copper mines must have been
tFerv knowledgeable as the indications of copper were very
meagre. There. i~ a jood deal of- iron in the mils and
the ideologists found that this seriously affected their
compasses if placed o • - -.e ^round,
an
It is/interestin^ fact that.the jeolo^ists were
invited by the Shaikhs of Baraimi to visit that tract,
but