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from the 'wells they first mix it with dried dates to make it more palatable. The
04;^ „ Wahabis have frequently waged war upon the A1 Morrah, but Faisal alone, if local
8 ^ tradition is to be believed, succeeded in penetrating with his troops as far as Banaiyan,
and his force was so reduced by the hardships of the desert march that he was
^ompelled on his arrival there to grant the tribe exceedingly easy terms."
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western (
II.— Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1913 (unratified).
ndedbyKlo^ . t . Artlcle 11 ;
^ (Jislancelj " Sandjak Ottoman de Nedjd, dont la limite septentrionale est indiqnee par la
^ tfie districts ligne demarcation^ definie a I'anicle 7 de cette convention, se termine vers Je sud
20 to 25 n]il es ; au goll 0 faisant face a File de Zahnounie, qui appartient an dit Sandjak, Uiie ligne
i sid® 'Aqalisfi p ^rtant du fond extreme du dit golfe ira directement au Sud jusqu'au Ruba-ai-Khali
'tli-west,and k et separera le Nedjd de la presqu'ile d'El-Katr. Les limites du Nedjd sont indiquees
^GgrapliicailyiJji par une ligne bleue sur la carte annexee a la presente Convention (annexe VA). Le
) Sabakhatllatf Gouveruement Imperial Ottoman ayant renouce a toutes ses reclamations concernant
^ forming j • l a presqu'ile d'El Katr, il est entendu entre les denx Gouvernements qae ladite
considered to f P 1 " 65 ^ 11 '^ 6 sera ' comme par le passe, gouvernee par le cheikh Djassim-bin-Sani et par
ses successenrs. Le gouvernement de Sa Majeste Britannique declare qn'il ne
permettra pas au ckeikh de Baliraine de s'immiscer dans les atiaires interieures d'El
Katr, de porter atteinte a I'autonomie de ce pays, on de I'annexer."
[The blue line in question runs due south from the head of the bay opposite
"emaiis: "Up Zaknuniyeh Island to the 20th parallel of latitude, where it meets the line of
ist a distancsd.demarcation between Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. and the Aden Protectorate laid down under the
frontierexteoi Anglo-Turkish agreement of 3rd June 1914.]
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iie limit of tisi III.—M r. P hilby's J ourney of 1932.
ortlieim slV' 1 "^ ^ r - Phil by in his crossing of the Ruba-al-Khali in 1932 passed through the
; Barr-al-Qarah coastal belt with the assistance of Ibn Jiluwi and the Hasa authorities,
111 118 tr turning south-west at Salwa and proceeding thence to the Jabrin Oasis. The
following extract from his book " The Empty Quarter ^ is of interest, and supplements
the evidence of Mr. Bertram Thomas as recorded in paragraphs 16-18 of the Note ; —
p. 28. " Ali Jahman . . . rode far ahead gossiping about his experiences on
a recent tax collecting expedition to the south-eastern districts along the frontier
of Oman. ... I was interested to hear from him that Ibn Sa'ud's influence is
ich may perta felt to-day in all the Dhahira country, as they call the tract westward of the
•poses of the M Oman Massif, including, of course, Buraimi, a Wahhabi centre of long standing,
>{ Nejd]. Itw and apparently even Ibri. These tax collecting expeditions scarcely perhaps do
ilwa on the a® more than pay the expenses involved in equipping and sending them out, but
i of about 12i they do tend to spread the gospel of Wahhabi peace and Arabian unity. Slovvly
) the south of it; but surely the ripples of stable government broaden outwards from the centre
ime authorities? and the Manasir may be counted to-day as subjects of Ibn Sand, who asks little
of them but the acceptance of his sovereignty and the maintenance of his
peace. . . ."
{N.B. —The Manasir tribe are concentrated in the Abu Dhabi area, ranging from
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