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We cannot think of anything else for Maskat. The improvement of the coal jetty has
been sanctioned and a landing stage is proposed. Your Eaoellenoy will doubtless see these and
the new Consulate. Major Cor should meet Your Excellency o2 Kas-el-Hadd or off Sur which
vou may wish to inspect en route to Maskat. We shall have Mr. Lorimer with us as inter
preter in case Major Cox is weak in translating publicly, and 1 think that it would be well to
take the Attache, who was for 14 years at Bassidore, and could point out what was then con
sidered to be our boundary. He would be useful to look after the Sheikhs and could also do
„ s Tr. -11 U arvnm the Toshakhana Superintendents work. There
Whv three? It will be very dithcult to aecom „ . r . ,,
y - u„4. will be three Foreign Otnce clerks. Major Urey
could accompany Your Excellency also throughout
if wanted and he should at any rate go as far as
his jurisdiction extends, i.e., Lingah.* Colonel
Kemball will also meet Your Excellency at Maskat,
but he wishes to go on in advance to arrange about the Darbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). of Sheikhs at Shargah and
this seems a good arrangement. We have written about the spare ship and are arranging for
the presents.
He proposes in his letter of 2nd October that Your Excellency should, in addition to
Please send me eopies of .11 these papere with a endorsing the existing arrangements, mtimate that
view to the speeches that I shall have to nuke. aggression by one State or another even by land
C[uezon]. will not be viewed with approval by the British
Government and that the British Resident will always be ready to listen to complaints and
arrange a settlement in case of quarrels.
There seems to be no harm in this.
%v ny uiiee r ^ , .
modate all these persons, and I cannot see what
they would have to do.
J C[urzon].
* Surely this is enough.
C[ubzon].
f The Sultan should visit me sometime in the Orders are also required on the question of
forenoon after my arrival. I will return the visit
in the afternoon. The Darbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). will be next day.
C[itbzon].
J I will consider this later,
C[tTBZON].
§ This depends upon what I am to put else
where. Perhaps Kemball should be asked whe
ther G.O.I.E. is necessary, or whether K.C.I.E. is
sufficient.
C[t7BZON].
We can of course arrange for the Consuls* sa,lutes and if the Admiral visits the Sultan
with His Excellency, only ¥our Excellency’s salute would be fired. We could if necessary
provide for firing this salute if the Sultan cannot.
In the papers tied below a quarantine difficulty is mentioned.
L. W. Dane,— 15-10-1903.
C[urzon], —15-10-1903.
Vide my marginal notes.
the visits at fMaskat, and the declarations sug
gested by Major Cox in his letter of 6th Septem-
ber.J
The decoration for the Sultan has also to be con
sidered ; perhaps a G. C. I. E. would be suitable. §
With Your Excellency’s permission the two draft telegrams may be issued.
Colonel Kemball in his telegram of 1st October recommended that no decoration should
be given to any one except the Sultan of Maskat. Of the three clerks, one is the man who
has been placed on special duty with Mr. Lorimer for Gazetteer work, one is the Superinten
dent of the External A Branch who knows the Gulf cases, and the third is a shorthand writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
and copyist. I do not think we could manage with less and had already cut down the
suggestions of the office. Some of them may be sea-sick. As to the Admiral s salute and
visit at Maskat, should he go on in advance or should he not visit the Sultan separately on
this occasion or at all? Major Cox has raised this question and also that of salutes for
Consuls in his letter of 6th September.
L. W. Dane,— 18-10-1903.
It is not the Admiral's visit but the Viceroy's and I can see no reason why there should
be Admiral's visits or salutes at all. * Otherwise we may have the nuisance repeated at each
place where we touch.
C[urzon], —20-10-1903.
The telegram may issue. Let me have Sir A. Hardinge's telegram about the Governor
of Ears’ deputation to meet His Excellency. I presume he is the Ala-ed-Dowleh.
L. W. Dane,— 21-10-1903.
Telegram to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , dated the 21st October
Enquires about a decoration for the Sultan of Maskat.
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1903.