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whom he had collected at Zora in support of the Bani Qitab, then
at war with their neighbours ; but, the other Trucial Shaikhs having
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thrown difficulties in the way, he found himself unable to turn the
authority thus granted to account. In 1897 a section of the Sudan
tribe under Sultan-bin-Nasir requested the leave of the Resident to
colonise Zora; and in 1900, on the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi offering to
protect the settlement and promising to assist the inhabitants with
non-military stores sent by sea, the desired permission was given:
Shaikh Zaid, it may be observed, was himself a Suwaidi on his
mothers side, and a daughter of the Suwaidi Shaikh Sultan-
bin-Nasir was among his wives. The Zora scheme was however
alarming to the Ghaiiri Shaikhs; the Shaikh of 'Ajman at once took
steps to protect himself by building a fort near one of the fords con
necting Zora with the mainland; and the Shaikh of Sharjah, in
September 1900, appealed to the Resident to prevent the establishment
of anon-Qasimi stronghold in the midst of Qasimi country. The permis
sion given to colonise was accordingly revoked, to the intense annoyance
of Shaikh Zaid, who saw himself thus deprived of one of the chief means
on which he had counted for the extension of his influence over all Trucial
J Oman, Ruus-al-Jibal, Shamailiyah and Baraimi. It may be added that
in March 1905 Major Cox, the Political Resident, made a personal
inspection of Zora and came to the conclusion that the proposed settle
ment should not be authorised, unless with the unanimous assent of all the
Trucial Shaikhs, which it was unlikely would ever be given.
In 1900, on the death of Hamaid -bin-^Abdullah of Ras-al-Khaimah,
that place and its dependencies were re-incorporated with the principality
of Sharjah from which they had been separated since 1869. Ihe number
of the Trucial Shaikhs was thus reduced from six to five, the latter being
their original number.
The troubles which arose in 1902 between the Shaikh of Sharjah
and his vassal the headman of Pujairah in Shamiliyah are fully narrated
in an Appendix to this chapter, and at present we are concerned onh
with their effects upon the relations of the 'IVucial Shaikhs w ith one
another. The cause of the rebellious headman, who had appealed to the
Sultan of Masqat and to the Shaikh of Dibai, was espoused m Trucial
'Oman by the Shaikhs of Dibai and 'Ajman, with whom the Shaikh of
Umm-al-Qaiwain, on account of neglected claims by his subjects
Sharjah, afterwards associated himself; but the influence of t ie iai <
of Abu Dhabi, who, with a view to propitiating the Shaikh of Snarja
in the Zora case, had recently formed a close alliance with him, was
Disappear
ance of Has-
al-Ebaiwab
as a separate
Shaikhdom,
1900.
The Shamai*
liyah case,
1902-05.