ملف رقم ٦٠٠ لسنة ١٩٠٥ الجزء ٤ "المنطقة الداخلية لعدن: المعاهدات المقترحة مع سلطان البدع وسلطان العوذلي؛ وقد ظلّت المعاهدة مع البدع معلّقة" [و‎‎٢‎١‎٨] (١٥٨/٦٧)

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From
^ultHn Ali bin Abdulla Am—Rasasi,
of B e d a ,
To
Kajor General E. BeBrath, C.B., C.I.E.,
Folitioal Resident, Aden.
A.C. ^
We send you this letter from the territory of Beda where
y - 1 J o°od. fou are aware of the former trouble. We
hope that you are conversant with the matter of the controversy
Ex-Sultan x
-md the innovations. When Ali bin Ahmed was reigning before,
he had left the country uncared for. When we found that it was
uncared for, we took charge of the Sultanate which was our
hereditary right. We got the Sultanate through Sultans, tribesmen
and Munsabs, all of whom made it a condition on us that we should
remove the newly introduced practices and cause peace to prevail
in the country and on the roads and we undertook to do so. We
therefore asked the Abdali in the matter of the innovations and
also asked him to send back our fugitive subjects who had bolted
in the time of Ali bin Ahmed, but as he refused to do so, a
fight ensued between him and ourselves and you have already come
to know of the same. Eventually the son of Ahmed bin Husein,
the Fadthli, came to us saying that he was deputed by you and