'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎56v] (123/1904)

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No. 16.
HassanSarnayteh
(After compliments.) Ling ah, 13, 1906,
I have received your esteemed letter dated tlie 26tli June and perused it gladly
and understood what you had stated.
You had acknowledged receipt of my letter the contents of which you had
understood.
As regards the sale to the German, it is satisfactory, and I hope it will be
fortunate. You had understood the details regarding the sale, shipment, and boat-
hire, hut you did not let me know about the commission; is it to be charged by us
from them or by them from us? You had written that I should send you a copy of
the agreement. Very well, but the agreement has been written in German, and
there is no one with us who can write such a hand. The purport of the agreement is
accurately the same as I have written to you.
You had written to me whether we had contracted with the German for 2,000 tons
per annum. Yes, we have contracted with him that the quantity should be 2,000 tons
at least, and he can, according to the agreement take any more quantities which we
may be able to obtain from the mines.
You had written whether we can obtain more than this quantity, and if so,
whether we can contract with other Europeans, so that you may negotiate with them.
I have understood this, but I cannot give the accurate quantity unless the mine is
worked for two or three months when I will be able to form an idea.
I dispatched forty-five workmen to the island in the beginning of June, but
little work is done, it being summer and the days being hot. If more than 2,000 tons
are obtained, the German is bound to take it from us. We can therefore make no
other contract.
I beg also to inform you that my son Abdulla has sold about 400 tons more or
less at Calcutta. Only the freight is to be paid by us, every maund will be 1 r. 9 a.
delivery at Calcutta. I have been trying to procure a vessel since a long time. I
have now-a-days chartered " Alimghir," the vessel belonging to the sons of Khoja (to
ship red oxide) at 10 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. per ton. It is now several days that she has gone to the
island to ship (the oxide).
Thank God my son Abdulla has freed himself from the dispute at Calcutta. He
has compromised with them. He has come to Bombay, and I will receive his letter
from Bombay by this mail, if God pleases. I hope he will not be detained there, and
that he will settle his case with Jeita Bania Merchant of Indian extraction. and come to our parts soon.
No. 14.
Hassan Samayieh to
(Translation.) Ling ah, 23rd 1324 14, 1906).
I have received your letter dated the 20th December, 1906, and was glad to hear
of your well-being. I have understood what you stated. Regarding my son Abdulla,
I beg to say that after settling the case at Calcutta he has arrived at Bombay, where
he has some easy matters to settle with the Bania Merchant of Indian extraction. . He will settle his account and
will leave for our parts in two or one and a-half months. You had remarked that you
had asked some one in the post-office to take from me a copy of the document, which
is in German. Let it not be hidden from you that the German, when the bargain was
concluded with him, said to me that this transaction should be kept secret (" Yekoon
Mastoor "), and so I did not wish that any outsider should come to know of it, and I fear
that if news of the copying of the document reaches his ears he will be annoyed. In
truth, it is not my intention that anyone should come to know about it except myself
and you. What you wanted, namely, the details of the sale which had taken
place' I have already communicated to you in a previous letter. Procedure will be
according to that letter, neither more nor less, in pursuance of what is written in the
document.