'Files 61/12 and 61/16 (D 80) Treaty between Bin Saud and H. M. Govt' [‎110r] (226/408)

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F. R. PRIDEAUX,
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Enclosure 3 in No. 1.
Note on the Tracts and Tribes of South Hasa, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , " Independent Om(m,"
and I>fiahirah (JJmun Sultanate), located between the Coast of the Persian Gul,
and Ruba -al-Khah {the Great Salt Desert).
bOl III of the llasa oasis is the extensive Jafurah desert, which extends
eastwards at least to the 5!2nd meridian of east longitude.
Jt.s south-western and south-eastern corners are respectively the Jabrin oasis
and a point about 10 miles south of Idd village in Dhafrah. Jafurah is almost as
m ospi able a land as the Uuha-al-Khali desert, which borders it on the south.
Its oni} inhabitants, besides Ajman Bedouin on its northern fringe, are A1 Morra,
who own the Jabrin oasis and who have dealings occasionally with the people of the
xiasa oasis.
Like the Bani Hajir of Central Hasa (Biyadh), a few of these A1 Morra also
repair occasionally to Katar to receive hospitality and gifts from the A1 Thani
family.
I he boundary on the coast between Katar and Abu Dhabi was ruled in 1907
by the Go\ernnient *of India to be the " Khor (bay) of Odaid. At Odaid village,
which is the north-western-most point of the small coastal tract known as Akal, is
Odaid village, lounded, and periodically abandoned, by Bani Yas tribesmen.
Manasir from Dhafrah and A1 Morra from Jafura occasionally camp in this tract.
East of Akal is Mijan, a desert containing no settled inhabitants, though wells
and good grazing exist. The Bedouin who encamp in Akal also frequent this region.
It is bordered on the south by Jafurah at a distance of 70 miles from the coast.
East of Mijan is the saline and marshy tract called Sabakhat Matti. Being
liable to inundation from the sea at high tides for 15 miles, and containing no wells
or grass, it is avoided even by the Manasir, who, on their movements to the north
west from Dhafrah, prefer to pass through Jafurah.
East of Sabakhat Matti is the large desert of Dhafrah, containing six
sub-divisions—Taff-Bainunah, Taff, Bainunah, Dhafrah proper, Kufa and Liwa—
of which the southernmost, Liw T a, is the only one to support a settled population.
These inhabit thirty or forty village oases, possessing considerable date groves,
amongst the sand dunes. The whole population is composed of Bani Yas and
Manasir Bedouin. The former are fellow T -tribesmen of the Sheikhs of Abu Dhabi
and Dibai.
The Manasir are friendly and allied to the Bani Yas. An increasing number of
them go pearl diving in summer.
East of Dhafrah are the towns and villages of the Trucial chiefs, settled in
Oman-ash-Shumali, u North-(Western) Oman." South of this coast is Khatam, a
grazing district only visited in winter by Bani Yas, Manasir and Nairn: further
south is Ja, with its oases—Baraimi, Hafit, Kabil and Mahadhah.
Baraimi oasis is populated by two tribes only—the Dhawahir, who are
subordinate to the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi, and the Naim, who are unfriendly to him.
The Naim, who also possess Hafit and Kabil, mainly hail from Dhahirah (Oman
Sultanat), but they also have colonised a number of villages on the Trucial coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
Mahadhah, occupied by Bani Kaab, seems to have no connection with Baraimi.
Its sheikhs possess properties in Sohar (of Muscat).
South of Hafit and east of Dhafrah lies the great sub-montane district of
Dhahirah, belonging to the Oman Sultanate. This contains a number of towns—
Ibri, Araki, seat of a Wali (Governor under Muscat), Dhank, Yankul, &c. The
nomads of this district are the Naim, Awamir, and Daru, all of whom are generally
at feud with both the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi and the Ibadhi leaders of Oman.
It is intelligible, therefore, that they should be inclined to welcome Wahabi
advances.