'Muscat. Desire of Sultan Taimur bin Faisal to Abdicate.' [‎107r] (217/408)

the subject# Saiyid Said concurred, was most sensible, and the
result of the conversation is as follows:-
5# Saiyid Said quite agreed in the first place that if His
Highness would not return to Muscat he could not expect to get
the full allowance which was settled on him on the condition
that he would spend some months here every year» The question
was how much should he receive# This again depended on
what expenses His Highness had to meet from his allowance.
6# His Highness* matrimonial commitments are as followst-
A* The wife in Muscat, mother of Saiyid Said# She gets
Rs# 600/~ every month from the State# The Sultan also
gives her an allowance#
B# The Circassian in Constantinople, mother of one boy#
The Sultan has divorced her^r|(She was too much of a
handful, and according to one story I heard, not from
^ v
Saiyid Said of course, tried to stab His Highness one
night)# She has no further claims on the Sultan, but
he sends an allowance for the maintenance of the boy©
C# The wife in DHOPAR, with two boys and one girl# How
far she is the actual 'wife* of the Sultan remains
dubious# Anyhow she and her family are supported from
the earnings of DHOFAR which as you know is a private
estate of the Sultan^# No money, however, (according
to Saiyid Said^is remitted to the Sultan from Dhofar^
the local revenues just about covering the expenses of
the local administration#
r , ' . -
He probably has a ♦friend 1 or two in India, but cer-
tainly no wife#1
7# The way the Rs.lO^OOO/- p#m. allowance is disposed of at
present is roughly as follows:-
R8 #3,000/- p.m# is sent to the Sultan, and Rs#7,000 p.m#
is given to Khan Bahadur Nasib, to whom the Sultan is heavily
indebted, the exact amount of the debt Saiyid Said did not
know# Out of this Rs.7,000 Nasib gives - on behalf of the
.
Sultan •• Rs#2,000 as a sort of private allowance to various