"ثورة مسقط، في الفترة من أبريل ١٩١٧ إلى يناير ١٩١٨، واستُأنفت في الفترة من أبريل ١٩٢٠ إلى أكتوبر ١٩٢٠" [و‎‎٢‎٢‎٥] (٥٥٨/٤٦٢)

utterly sick of his rule and that of his brothers', which was
a combination of utter religious bigotry combined with shame
less selfishness and oppression and a complete disregard of
politics or government, all of which in addition to their own
inherent disadvantages were resulting in the imposition of all
sorts of trying restrictions from the Sultan's government,
culminating in the penal zakat.
Now was the chance for the Sultan's government .
It waa peculiarly fortunate at this moment that Maccollum
was on leave. Had he been here it would have been impossible
for the loval government to have acted without it being
regarded as certain that we.behind any effort that they would
make, a thing that we are certainly not, for the simple reason
that it does not matter in the least as by the strengthening
of the Sultan's government matters will automatically adjust
themselves, and we caraji afford to wait, and because it is not
our policy to mix ourselves up in the affairs of the interior.
At the same time an attitude of complete aloofness left it
still open for the Omanis to approach us if they wanted to.
The tribes undoubtedly expected the local
government to act, and quite a number sent tentative offers of
allegiance. The local government then acted, but they did not
act quite fast enough. With tiie years of imbecility of Faisal
Taimur, and of treachery and vacillation behind them they aid
not realise Napoleon's famous dictum on the moral and the
material, that they had only to send a representative with a
very few men to Semail and the thing was done, it did not need
force 0% even a show of force, it only needed a bold front,
they delayed two days while they thought that tkey were making
sure. The result was that Isa, as I had told them was probable
jumped in with his move, and the Qazi of Muscat within a few
miles of Semail was met by the Sheikhs who had askel him to
come with the statement that he nad arrived too late by twenty