"ثورة مسقط، في الفترة من أبريل ١٩١٧ إلى يناير ١٩١٨، واستُأنفت في الفترة من أبريل ١٩٢٠ إلى أكتوبر ١٩٢٠" [و‎‎٢‎٥‎١] (٥٥٨/٥١٤)

Itself in l8ft f e far our ho acted with great policy v a» indeed
he was oompelJUd to by the insecurity of hi8 position which
dopenritsd for its consolidution on the removal of the peml
»akat* He obt ined the return of the ^ardt-nsfrora the Imam# wc
wrote to mo ( then in India i that he had done bo , and aeJced
for a meeting*
'ifhie was finally arranged am took place at Sib
from the 23rd to 26th September<4920. It i^ wprthy of note tbi
that on this ocoaaion» ae a mark of the complete ohan«e in
th^ politioal situation and in the attitude of the tribe#
caused by the new policy, that lea sent in letter after letti.
asking for meeting and actually waited for me 20 day® at
Khoz t while on previout occasiione exactly the reverse had
beenthe oa»#.
On the 21st Captain Thomson of the 1/117th
Mahrnttas proceeded with an escort of 50 men of the 117th
to Sib by native sailing boat# to the house of the ali of
isuttrah at the edge of the gardens which h&d been fixed as
rendea vous # tents ^ere erected close by fdr the entertain-
-m^nt of the Sheikhs#
Within a fr# hours of my arrival from India
on the 2S!al. aooorap-mied oy Captala I'euraon ComKvndlng the
detaohaant of the 117th at Jtuttrah, Captain aanon, M.O., anS
the Consulu* drnyo»'.n X eiflb«iriced in a mtiYe sailing Teasel
for alb, arrlTlns thuro the afternoon of the 23rd. A aessftfit
vhs went iBsacdl utely to Sheikh *aa who was at Khoa only 2
hours distance.
Early on the morning ^f the 24th Sheikh ^sa
aooompanlad by over twenty Oman Sh^iiho and three hundred
eaaolaan arrived at the rendea tous . trtxen they hul dle-
-znounted and entered the tents 1 paid the ouatomry visit
on thorn as their host reaUnlna about 10 nlnutes.
The first meeting took place an hour later
and lasted some two houru. The question pressed by me was
- r<amemberod
the authorisation of Sheikh isa. 1^ ^ &