'Muscat Rising, from April 1917 to January 1918 & resumed from April 1920 to Oct 1920' [‎254r] (520/558)

not 1 at erf t>re In their intwrml affair®.
( Kote. the «ord here ubck ! »&e dakhiliyat-a kiim. which
ia very important as it means no more than it any a, their
internal affairs, and the Sultan cannot argue should he choose
[to do 80 that there ia any derogation of hie eupreme authority.
On the 8thor hand the Uaania are at liberty to regard it ae
ooiapleta iaUpendcnce. Both aides are therefore satisfied ).
The Qmanis would
(1) Remain in peace with the Sultan, not attack the
coast and not interfere with his government
(2) Permit freedom of trade and travel in Craan and
guarantee the safety of travellers.
{3) Would return and not protect fugitives from the
Sultan's Justice
(4) Would hear the claims of traders and others agains'
CuaaniB aooording to w hara*
It ib euBaualtyg to note that the terras asked froai tHa
ftulton was originally only three, (!Si and (3) being combined.
When the OitKtnio found that they had to concede four terms to
the Sultan they were somewhat upset, but the situation was
®a*ed by spiitting thv &&Qon& term into two »
As regards the fourth term ooncedod to/ th«
hearing hy the Shara uras Inevitable as th».y have no other
courts. It will almost certainly be necessary in this respect
to warn British subjeots that they should be careful to claia
on * waraqas 0 ( documents ) not on account books which would
not be acc epted.
On the morning of the 25th Sheikh Isa and some twenty
Sheikhs cuae to write out the terms and sign them in my
pre,,nee. Iiaaediatcly a most difficult point arose. Sheikh Is.
insisted that the peace should be between the Sultfcn on the
one side and the • Imam al Euslimin " on the other. This 1
refused for obvious reasons. In the first place it meant the
open reoognition by us of another ruler. In the second such a
peace