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PrOTn. The Hesldoncy A pert .Shargatu
To "The Honourable the P 0 lloical tees 1 dent In the ^.G.BUahire
No 374.
Dated 31st October 1925?.
A • C •,
T beer to report for your informat 1 on that on the xRth
October iQ25 the steamer" Khuzistan ,, arrived here? a north/wind
was blowing and the sea was then boisterous. T therefore sent
my clerk Husaln bin Hasan in a boat to call on borad that steamer,
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with great difficulties/reached the steamer. He met Ha.li
Abdullah Williamson and ..he latter informed Husain that there
were on board the steamer two cr^logists named Vessrs Less and
^ray sent by the A.P.O.C.Ltd., Muhammerah for the pur-nose of
surveying the mountains in the district of Ras-ul-Khaimah
^oos-ul-Jebal # and -chat before doing so they want to see me and
tfc^discuss the matter. They therefore asked that T should send
them a sailing boat on the j.9th October* <55 to enable them to
come down weather permitting. T therefore sent them a boat and
they landed on the i9th idem and called on me in the Agency.
They informed me that they want to survey the said mountains and
that T should/with somebody on mybehalf or to go with thorn]
to Ras-ul-K^aimah and to do the necessary arrangements for them
to reach the "Poos-ul-Jebal". I found it more advisable that I
should go with them to the destination they had in view so
that they may not come across with some difficulties with the
arabs of w Ras-u1-Khaimah M because they are wild and savagei.
On the 19th October 10 5,late in the evening,! went or> board
the said steamer and left Shargah in comna^y with the said
gentlemen and reached Ras-ul,fifHaimah the next day in the morning
Shaikh Sultan bin Salem called on board the steamer and T
arranged with him thejfcecessary arrangements desirable and then
wo landed• The Shaikh sent throe men on his behalf to accormany
the said party: T also sent my sone,with them also my guards.
These being done they left Ras-ul-Khalmah and having reached
the neighbouring mountains they did the necessary survey work anc