ملف رقم ٦٠٠ لسنة ١٩٠٥ الجزء ٤ "المنطقة الداخلية لعدن: المعاهدات المقترحة مع سلطان البدع وسلطان العوذلي؛ وقد ظلّت المعاهدة مع البدع معلّقة" [و‎‎٢‎٣‎٦] (١٥٨/١٠٣)

Sultan m the hope of raining some reward. Each of these
individuals is naturally anxious to secure the reward for
himself and the result is doubtless that to some extent one
is undoing the work of another. It may therefore he urged
that rather than depend upon the efforts of ^ contending
aspirants to the expected reward, it would be better that
we should ourselves despatch a mission to the country.
8. It has now been decided to accept the apologies of the
Hassani and Saeedee tribes, and a mission may be held to be
no longer necessary to correct them. It may at the same
time be held desirable that our acquaintance with them should
now be improved.
9. Our relations with the Lower Yaffai Sultan have for
some time past not been satisfactory and a Political Mission
to the Horth-East might be expected to have a beneficial
effect upon them.
10. Sir Hicholas O'Conor has recently urged that it is
desirable to proceed with extreme caution North-East. And
it is of course to be considered that the North-East line
has not yet been delimited and that the Porte have expressed
their willingness to at any time determine the frontier with
us.
11. At the same time a magnetic North-East line has been
decided upon and there is no room for doubt that both the
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