مجموعة ٢٠/١٠ "مسقط: حدود (مسقط-عدن) الجنوبية الغربية: نطاقات مسؤولية السلطات الجوية في العراق وعدن" [و‎‎٥‎٥] (٢٠٠/١٠٩)

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the representative of the Sultan of Qlshn and
Socotra. Sultan Khalifa stated that his brother was
inland as the visit was expected to take place a
month earlier. I was particularly struck by the
pleasant manner of this man and his apparent wish to
assist. During my interview on shore Sultan
Khalifa bin Abdullah, Mubarak bin 3a 1 id, an unpleasant
and voluble person who was of no assistance in fact
rather the reverse, Sa’id bin Issa and Muhammad bin
Ahmed were present. I questioned them on the sub
ject of the eastern boundary and they were all quite
clear, as had been the Sultan of Socotra, that Ras
Darbat *Ali was the point on the coast which con
stituted the dividing mark between Qishn and Oman.
Sultan Khalifa stated that he was speaking from what
he had heard and not from what he had actually seen.
His subsequent statements were agreed to by Sa’id
bin Issa, an old man who had been in the part of the
country under discussion. It appears that a Wadi,
by name A1 Hanna, enters the sea just east of Ras
Darbat ’Ali. This Wadi forms the boundary between
Oman and Qishn, and it runs north easterly from the
coast. The frontier apparently after following the
Wadi turns north-westerly and eventually joins the
Wadi A1 Masila. I was unable to discover for how far
the frontier follows the Wadi Hanna but I gather for
some distance. Sultan Khalifa identified the Bin
Afrid and Bin Kadaba as being one and the same tribe
and being together with Din ’Ali Muqaddam, Bin Naji,
Bin Azale, Bin Khorshed,. Bin Muqfeh, Bin Suleimi end
Bin Qidda, subject to the Sultan of Qishn and Socotra.
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