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merchants interested in the slave trade enquired of the Emir of Jizan whether
the old or the new is not stated—whether he would encourage and facilitate a
revival of the import business. He is said to have promised to do so. Other
reports received at Aden state that two slaves were landed at Mocha in March
1931 and one in October 1931, and that at the beginning of March 1932 four
^ slaves—a man, a woman and two boys—were landed at Dubab and taken overland
to Zabid, where they were bought by one Muhammad Ibrahim Meccawi for
2,000 Maria Theresa dollars. The man and one boy were said to have been
sent later to Sharif Ibrahim ar-Rifa'i at Midi for sale.
Chapter IX.— Miscellaneous.
Visitors.
149. The following Moslem notables, amongst others, came on pilgrimage :
Sheikh Ismail-al-Azhari, Grand Mufti of the Sudan.
The widow of the late Colonel Nawab Sir Muhammad Nasrullah Khan ot
Bhopal. .. .
The Honourable Sirdar Saheb Suleman Cassum Haji Mitha, C.I.E., J.P.,
member of the Indian Council of State.
Sultan Saleh-bin-Ghalib Qaiti, nephew of the Sultan of Mukalla.
Babu Fazal Elahi, secretary of the Karachi Haj Committee.
Nawab Sir Amiruddin Ahmad Khan Bahadur, K.C.I.E., ex-Xawab ot
Loharu and grandfather of the ruling Nawab, Pataudi, the cricketer.
Nawab Sir Nizamat Jang Bahadur, Kt., C.I.E., O.B.E., of Hyderabad.
Nawab Fakhur Yar Jang Bahadur, of Hyderabad.
Nawab Muhammad Akram-ud-din Khan, of Hyderabad.
His Highness Ahmed Shah Khan, Minister of Court and cousin of the
King of Afghanistan.
Nawab Sir Shams Shah, of Kalat.
Khan Bahadur Nawab Abdullah, M.L.C., of Aligarh.
Muhammad-ibn-Isa-al-Khalifa, Mubarak and Abdullah, sons of Hamed-ibn-
Isa-al-Khalifa, of Bahrein.
M. Van de Poll, the Dutchman lately retired from profitable business in
the Hejaz to build himself a palace in Algeria.
150. A number of prominent Indian Nationalists and agitators also came,
among them Iqbal Shaidai, Ismail Guznavi. Ahmad Din, son of Nizam Din,
Abdurrahman Malabari, the editor of C A1 Amin, Hazrat Mohani, Moulvi
Nazir Ahmad Khajandi. , o j a i
151. The Croat violinist, Zlatko Balokovic, put into Jedda on the 3rd April,
on a world cruise in the yacht “Northern Light,” captained by a retired officer
of the Royal Australian Navy, and accompanied by his American owner-wife
and Baron Fleetwood of Sweden as pianist.
Staff.
152 Mr F V. Jones, Legation archivist for the past two years, left Jedda
on the 29th April, but died on the 1st May, aged 27. on his way home for his
first leave; he was buried at Tor. He had been weakened by the climate and
recent attacks of influenza and malaria, and succumbed to a twenty-four-hour
attack of double pneumonia. His loss has been keenly felt.