ملف رقم ٣٢٠٨ لسنة ١٩٠٨، جزء ٣، "الخليج الفارسي: قضية القرصنة في طاحونة" [ظ‎‎٢‎٨‎١] (٢٠٦/٢٠٠)

I endeavoured to explain to him that matters were delayed by an ineffici
ent Government in Shiraz, but he did not understand this. He said that a large
number of the Abu Thabi people were complaining against him for referring
cases to the Residency, as they said no result was obtained, and that some
threatened to leave Abu Thabi and settle in Katr.
He said this particularly applied to the Soudan tribe, some of whom live at
Abu Thabi and some in Katr. The murdered men in this case were of the
Soudan tribe. These men are perpetually pressing him to be allowed to go
over to Taona one night and exact what reparation they can and then go back
and settle in Katr.
Sheikh Zaeed therefore earnestly requested that the case may be settled
as soon as possible.
He says he is particularly anxious to speak to you on this matter and he
fears that somebody had been poisoning your mind against him and he feared
you may be annoyed with him. I assured him that neither was the fact. He
said however that he requested permission to be allowed to come up and see
you and ask whether you would let one of our ships bring him up sometime
when convenient. He said he had things to say which he would rather not
commit to paper.
This case looms very large at Abu Thabi just now and it is hard to get
them to talk about anything but this, and cases of dispute with the Belgian
Customs.
It seems very desirable therefore to press this case as much as we can.