"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٨‎١‎٩] (١٧٨٢/٩٧٤)

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1875 it was ascertained that the headman of 'Odaid had both a Trucial
and a Turkish flag and that he used one or the other as occasion required.
On the 18th of October 1876, when Captain Guthrie visited
'Odaid in the " May Frere/' he found the Trucial flag flying but
learned that tribute was still paid to Turkey.
In 1876 and 1877 a numbev of piracies were committed by the A1
Morrah, a Bedouin tribe nominally dependent on Turkey from boat
harbours under 'Odaid; these proceedings the headman of 'Odaid was
unable to prerent, and representations to the Turkish Government became
necessary. Her Majesty's Government, while avoiding specific mention
of 'Odaid, reference to which might have raised an inconvenient
territorial question, drew the attention of the Porte to the increase of
piracy along the Qatar coast which had resulted from the extension of
Turkish sovereignty in that direction, and intimated their own reso ve
not to allow the peace of the Persian Gulf to be disturbed by marauders,
whether proceeding from places like Dohab actually m Furkish pos
session, or belonging to tribes that admitted Turkish supremacy and
sailing from the ports of independent chiefs too weak to prevent the
abuse of their territory. The Turkish Government in reply denied all
knowledge of piratical outrages on the Qatar coast and askcc or par i-
culars.
In 1878 the Ottoman Minister for Foreign Affairs complained of
action by the British authorities at 'Odaid a few months previously,
which, as related in the history of Abu Dhabi, bad resulted in tlie aban
donment of the pla£e by the Bani Yas colonists; and in the Tnrbsh com-
munication 'Odaid was stated to be a dependency of the Tuikish dibtri
of Qatar, It does not appear from the records of the Government of
India what reply was made to this complaint; but, from the corre-
spondenee which shortly after took place in regard to piracies off the coast
of Hasa and Qatar, it seems clear that the British Government were
resolved not to admit Turkish pretensions to jurisdiction at Odaid or a.
any place further to the eastward.
From 1876 onwards, as a result of the presence of Bani Yas rebels at
'Odaid, hostile relations prevailed between the Shaikh of Dohah and
the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi; and in 1880, by the return of the Qubaisatto
Abu Dhabi, the enmity between the Shaikhs was much embittered. During
the sojourn of the Qubaisat at 'Odaid that place had fallen largely
under the influence of Shaikh Jasim, to whom, by their removal, i was
again lost; and his indignation was expressed m pecuniary claims
which he now brought against their headman, Buti-bm-Khadim.
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Correspon
dence with
the Porte
regarding
piracies
committed
from 'Odaid,
1877.
Complaint by
the Porte of
British action
at 'Odaid,
1878.
Protracted
war between
the Shaikhs
of Dohah
and Abu
Dhabi,