'ARBITRATION CONCERNING BURAIMI AND THE COMMON FRONTIER BETWEEN ABU DHABI AND SA'ŪDI ARABIA' [With maps] [‎131v] (267/541)

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said I had seen Hamed bin Sunoor just before I started from Byreemee and he
said that he wished to go to Sohar with me but as he had not come supposed
he did not intend doing so and that I would not stop an instant we then rode
on until sunset when we left the track and went into the hills to a we called bn
el Hameza where we halted for the night, the road all the way was very good
and water in several places, the direction east by north halt north.
29th January at sunrise we left the bi el Hameza and getting into the rack we left
yesterday evening and proceeded until about 10 A.M. when^ we entered the bed
of a mountain torrent called the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. al Yizzoe near a fine Gate grove called the
Nachl al Heil where there is a fine stream of water. At noon we reached another
large date grove the Nachl beni Gallab where there is also a stream of good water.
At 3 P.M. we came to a pass between two high peaks in the wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. al Yizzee called
Shigaree, here there is a round tower called the Beeri al Shigaree. It was built by
the Imam of Muscat but now belongs to Hamed bin Saif/Al Bokhrebanee/ There
were several match lock men in the tower, they fired a gun as we approached and
demanded two dollars a head from us but we refused to pay anything and after
some altercation we passed on — There is a spring of good water here, and I saw
a gun an eighteen pounder/iron/in good condition lying near the tower which
the people told me was sent by the Imam of Muscat for the fort of Byreemee but
that they were unable to drag it further from Sohar they had no carriage for it and
it was brought to where it then was by being dragged by men along the ground—
they tired of the job and left it at Shiguree—at 4 P.M. we came to an aqueduct
upon arches crossing a ravine called el Malana belonging to the Kunude arabs
and at sunset we arrived at a small town/Saleet with large date groves and a fine
stream of water here we halted for the night. Plenty of water all the way to day no
forage except for camels. The road very good, winding through high mountains,
direction from Bir al Hameza to Saleet N.E. distance about eleven hours.
30th January started about an hour after sunrise and shortly afterwards saw the
sea towards the north east, when we commenced descending the hills—and entered
the plain at the Kenauts called fellegh el gubau which extend from the hills to the
date groves of Sohar about noon we arrived at the town of Al Shir where I heard
that the chief of Sohar was absent at Ristok but that his vakeel Saed Salleh was at
el wah a town about three hours distant I wrote him a letter and about three P.M.
started for Sohar where we arrived about an hour after sunset—and where my
arrival excited the astonishment of the people had I been a wild beast such as never
before was heard of I could not have excited greater curiosity everyone came to
see the English man who had been to Byreemee I found that the most extraordinary
reports were in circulation regarding the object of my going to the interior which
were so absurd as not to be worth mentioning. 1 found a boat just starting for
Muscat and as I heard many letters were written giving an account of all I did at
Byreemee I wrote to the Imam to prevent his being deceived by the false reports
which 1 was aware were written to him.
m j^ n ^ht Saed Salleh arrived and called on me requesting to know if he
could render me any service saying that Saed Hamood bin Ay an the chief of Sohar
would come in from Ristock if I wanted any thing done or wanted assistance to go
anywhere—that I should have camels horses men or anything he could command I
Ah! i OT i y Tl" ^ fr 6 t0 , put up n ] untl11 could Procure a boat to go to Bunder
tni/iL Sal eh told me there would be a batill which was coming from Muscat
to take two horses to the Resident going to Khurgh in a few days in which I could
iZ/ P fi! age Y™ 64 m th ? evening and on the 3rd of February I embarked for
from ar T ed ° n dle 9th February—and procured the statements
Futfe I Rflhn^n t m e u T 1 ]' my Ructions regarding the wreck of the bugalon
are no R safe?hle af rYi 1 ° n my arrival in Khorgh—bills of exchange
mercantile mn^pHnn^ ^ 61 ' Y? i YV'V 6 no wealth Y merchants there the
Merchants who told ( f te fn by hlndo ° brok ers belonging to the Muscat
be disoosed of there in thr^P S t 0 i he a i^^ unt ten thousand rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. could not
stuff and sums from Yizd anH mY- 8 ^ exports from Bunder Abass are dye
stun ana gums trom Yizd and the imports piece goods and sugar —
AeTtotheauaStv T Sid A im the s “ b - issi »» °f the Naime
when we rnmi!w ih:,, l,, Sultan b,„ Suggur of Ras el Khyma which would
br!s r s u«