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PrOTn. The Hesldoncy A pert .Shargatu
To "The Honourable the P 0 lloical tees 1 dent In the ^.G.BUahire
No 374.
Dated 31st October 1925?.
A • C •,
T beer to report for your informat 1 on that on the xRth
October iQ25 the steamer" Khuzistan ,, arrived here? a north/wind
was blowing and the sea was then boisterous. T therefore sent
my clerk Husaln bin Hasan in a boat to call on borad that steamer,
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with great difficulties/reached the steamer. He met Ha.li
Abdullah Williamson and ..he latter informed Husain that there
were on board the steamer two cr^logists named Vessrs Less and
^ray sent by the A.P.O.C.Ltd., Muhammerah for the pur-nose of
surveying the mountains in the district of Ras-ul-Khaimah
^oos-ul-Jebal # and -chat before doing so they want to see me and
tfc^discuss the matter. They therefore asked that T should send
them a sailing boat on the j.9th October* <55 to enable them to
come down weather permitting. T therefore sent them a boat and
they landed on the i9th idem and called on me in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. .
They informed me that they want to survey the said mountains and
that T should/with somebody on mybehalf or to go with thorn]
to Ras-ul-K^aimah and to do the necessary arrangements for them
to reach the "Poos-ul-Jebal". I found it more advisable that I
should go with them to the destination they had in view so
that they may not come across with some difficulties with the
arabs of w Ras-u1-Khaimah M because they are wild and savagei.
On the 19th October 10 5,late in the evening,! went or> board
the said steamer and left Shargah in comna^y with the said
gentlemen and reached Ras-ul,fifHaimah the next day in the morning
Shaikh Sultan bin Salem called on board the steamer and T
arranged with him thejfcecessary arrangements desirable and then
wo landed• The Shaikh sent throe men on his behalf to accormany
the said party: T also sent my sone,with them also my guards.
These being done they left Ras-ul-Khalmah and having reached
the neighbouring mountains they did the necessary survey work anc