'14/21 Correspondence re Zaora' [‎181r] (370/399)

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D/O No,141 of 1903. Hn-aft-J- /?Jtf- -if*. ^
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Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , ^
Balu^e in, Oth March 1003.
My dear Major,
In tri la Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Tiary the week ending 12-tli
October 1006, i made mention of a Sudan ShaiKH, named Sultan
in -< -i.-ix', who lived with a portion of his tribe at Bida; and
m repeating the entry in 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. Diary your office
added a parenthesis that this Shaihh was the individual who
had recently wished to settle at Zora.
In January 1008, I consulted you on the subject of a
request made by this same Headman of Bida for British Protec-
tion, and you wrote a Minute on the Bahrein Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. file, re
peating what now proves to be a mistake.
Mr Inam al Hak, tlie Interpreijer of uh.is Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. has re
ported to me that, when in Dabai last January, he met Shaildi
Sultan bin Nasir as Suwaidi, the father-in-law of Shaikh
Zaid bin Khalifa of Abu Thabi, and discovered that he was not
the same person as the man of Bida, but a cousin.
The Bida man is believed to have once attempted to set
tle at Odaid under Shaikh Jasim bin Thani's overlordship, and
contrary to the wishes of Shaikh Zaid, while the Dabai man
as you know is on very friendly terms with the Chief of Abu
Dhab i.
I am enclosing copies of the papers which I showed you
last January for your file, and perhaps you will find it
desirable to get corrected the mistaken remarks which have
previously occurred on your files regarding the identity of
these 2 Shaikhs. -The strangeness of the coincidence in names
is increased by the fact that both the Sultans have brothers
named Khalifa.
Yours sincerely.
(Sd) F.B.Prideaux.
A copy of this letter should go on the file 14/21 and another
file be made for "desire for British Protection by Soudan
Tribe of Doha in Katar" in which these papers will go.
(Intld) P.Z.C.
21/5.