'File 4/13 IV Zubara' [‎181r] (366/412)

Statement of Rashid bin Hasan al-Ka'aimi, a Bahrain subject and
resident of .tafa’, aged 27 years, taken at the Political ige'ey,
Bahrain,
• A fortnight ago H.H.Shaikh of Bahrain ,ordered his subjects, the.
for grazing there. He informed us to go to ^atar land because
Zubara. area is a salty place and*there is no grass for the cattle
to eat. About 16 houses with 18 .men - most of the men are working
at Awali and they have not gone with their families - shifted
from Bahrain on 22-2-45 to t atar by boats. Ae arrived there on
Friday moulting 23-2-45 and landed first at Zubara where we stayed
the night. Cn Saturday morning we shifted from Zubara and arrived
Ilolwan at forenoon, where we pitched our tents and allowed our
cattle and camel to graze. • There we remained for four days and
Tuesday afternoon, 27-2-45, one Hamad al-^ahtani accompanied by
four persons c&me and erected his tent beside ours. The latter
party is a patrol body appointed by the Shaikh of Qatar to watch
After dinner he informed us that according to instructions from the '
Shaikh of w atar that we should go inside the mainland, that no one
of . t atar, and that any articles received us from Bahrain to be
charged with duty, and that we should take our rations from Dohah
ds the other ^atar people. To prove his statement*, he showed us a
letter adressed to him ftdbi by Shaikh of Qatar which was read to us
by him and then by one of my friends named Mohammed bin Mit’b.
When..I found this, I gave an excuse that my mother is sick a-t'
Bahrain and I want to see her. Hamad al-Qahtani allowed me to
return to Bahrain, so I conveyed, the story to H.H. the Shaikh of
Bahrain who has sent me to you to day to give it to you. On my
way back I saw many people are going there for grazing.
Ka’aim people, to shift to Qatar land with their cattle and families
the northern part of Qatar coast against smuggling etc. Hamad
al-Qahtani and his. men had their dinner with.us in the same evening
pf us should leave ^atar to Bahrain without a permit from the Shaikh
X.T.I. of Rashid bin Hasan Na'aimi.•