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which should have useful results. a Reeidency Agent, Sayyed
Abdul ilezza<i has been very useful to him.
16• i .ooney a tour of the irucial Coast, the first under-
taken lv a itesidency Surgeon, has awakened great interest
in medical facilities amongst the Shaikhs and he hopes to
return in the spring, and to estatlieh himself In some centre
where the patients can he "brought in to him by arrangement
with the iiub-^Aesistant Surgeon at Debai* Our new hospital
is very popular, and Jemadar Hur Ahmad has made an excellent
start under trying conditions# This is the most concrete
benefit we have bestowed on this coast for many years, and
has the advantage of costing very little#
17# Ix is interesting to return to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and
see the changes that have been brought about in the last
twelve years without our firing a shot# Aeroplanes and flying
boats which caused such excitement ten years ago now pass
almost unnoticed, and Y/hereas ten years ago the Shaikh of
Sharj ah was convinced that he was risking his life in giving
us an aerodrome there is now competition to supply air
facilities - at a price# Twelve years ago Bertram Thomas
could write that the only requirements on this coast appeared
to be ammunition and aphrodisiacs, but now the Shaikhs have
wirelees eeta^ and are talking about hosiiitals and sohoo s.
The success of our peaceful penetration has been partly Uue
to the gradual awakening of this backwater and a greater
desire for contact with the outside world, but in the mam,
1 sni conTinced.to the fact that we have haetened slowly and
left these petty rulers to their own derices as far as
possible, sad above all to the inexhaustible patience shown
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