'14/201 II, TRUCIAL COAST MISCELLANEOUS, B 57' [‎147r] (301/417)

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Et olio hau now died dowri, and we made Kalba in
fine weather. The R egail t, . ihaikh max id bin ik tead. o M e off
verj early. and explained that the ainor shaikh wae not well
but would Vieit me on shore. The idea of a regency is a new
one on thi S coast and I was interested to see t^b^.'tllld
of some 9 or 10 year8 t who gshoiws a etrong strain of negro
blood. So far ae one can uee he appears to be getting a
square deal from the I.egent, I rode out to the aerodrome
and crossed it from end to end, and think that both length
and width oould be extended in each direction without undue
axixiculty • Aeronauts are notoriously reluctant to accept
the views of an amateur in the matter of aerodromes* "but I
hare had a good deal of experience in the selection of aero-
dromee in the i^asx and have never found that the underlying
principles v/ere so extremely technical as to be beyond the
grasp of an intelligent person* I see from a letter just
received that the Air Ministry have agreed to make Kalba an
emergency stop foreland planes, which are, however, only of
the Hannibal type and do not require a very big aerodrome*
The flying boat anchorage consists of the open sea and is
completely unprotected. In the evening I went ashore and saw
the Shaikh again and he mads some mention of a claim for an
allowance from the Shaikh of Sharjah. When I reached the
latter place I found that he had not taken up the matter with
the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent and therefore invited him to do so.
4. Our ;i»;^t stop was lias al Khalmah, where I found shaikh
Sultan in a comparatively reasonable frame of mird. It wae
interesting to sit in his eyrie in trie xort whj^e I argued
with him about his petrel barge some 10 ye^rs ago, and Howes,
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