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I ]) 'wells tKey first mix it with dried dates to make it more palatable. The
fel! have frequently waged war upon the Almorrah, but Faisal alone, if local
Ri 1 is to be believed, succeeded in penetrating with his troops as far as Banaiyan,
■ h^iorce was so reduced by the hardships of the march that he was compelled
Khis arrival there to grant the tribe exceedingly easy terms."
II.— Anglo-Tij rkish Convention of 1913 (unratified).
El-Katr.
Article 11.
i "LeSandjak Ottoman de Nedjd, dont la limite septentrionale est indiquee par la
| fa demarcation -definie a I'article 7 de cette convention, se termine vers le sud
Eu solfe faisant face a I'ile de Zahnounie, qui appartient au dit Sandjak. Une ligne
■rtant du fond extreme du dit golfe ira directement au Sud jusqu'au Ruba-al-Khali
It separera le Nedjd de la presqu'ile d'El-Katr. Les limites da Nedjd sont indiquees
L une ligne bleue sur la carte annexee a la presente Convention (annexe VA). Le
Goiwerneraent Imperial Ottoman ayant renonce a toutes ses reclamations concernant
la presqu'ile d'El Katr, il est entendu entre les deux Gouvernements que ladite
presquile sera, comme par le passe, gouvernee par le cheikh Djassim-bin-Sani et pai-
ses"successeurs. Le gouvernement "de Sa Majeste Britannique declare qu'il ne
■permettra pas an cheikh de Bahraine de s immiscer dans les aflaires inteneuies d LI
Katr, de porter atteinte a I'autonomie de ce pays, ou de I'annexer."
[ [The blue line in question runs due south from the head of the bay opposite
laknuniyeh Island to the 20th parallel of latitude, where it meets the line of
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
Anglo-Turkish agreement of 3rd June 1914.]
III.
| Mr. Philby in his crossing of the Ruba-aLKhali in 1932 passed through the
Barr-al-Qarah coastal belt with the assistance of Ibn Jiluwi and the Hasa authorities,
Wning south-west at Salwa and proceeding thence to the Jabrin Oasis. Ihe
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
felt to-day in all the Dhahira country, as they call the tract westward of the
Oman Massif, including, of course, Buraimi, a Wahhabi centre of long standing,
and apparently even Ibri. These tax collecting expeditions scarcely perhaps do
more than pay the expenses involved in equipping and sending them out, but
they do tend to spread the gospel of Wahhabi peace and Arabian unity, blow y
but surely the ripples of stable government broaden outwards from the centi e
and the Manasir may be counted to-day as subjects of Ibn Sand, who asks litt e
of them but the acceptance of his sovereignty and the maintenance ot his
peace. ..."
{N.B. —The Manasir tribe ^re concentrated in the Abu Dhabi area, ranging from
Qatar to the Baraimi Oasis.)
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