مجموعة ٢٠/١٠ "مسقط: حدود (مسقط-عدن) الجنوبية الغربية: نطاقات مسؤولية السلطات الجوية في العراق وعدن" [و‎‎٩‎٨] (٢٠٠/١٩٥)

tv/o years "before flourishing like the young hay tree ^o that
we could get all the cocoanuts we wanted without the customary
hags of salt/^
If you see Peck he may he intei'ested to know that
Uutu—f
MUKBAT would make a perfect seaplane 'bzrse in the N E monsoon
i.e. from October to April. PAISUT is the only possible one
in the S.W. monsoon i.6. from May to September. Both places
are satisfactory from the point of view of the tribal situation
¥ater is to he had at both hut is somev/hat brackish. There
are two small coves on either side of HASIK which might serve |
for forced landings in the respective monsoons hut the nearest |
fresh water to them is at the mouth of ttoe ¥adi DHIHAXR near
HAS SAMHAL (there is no SAMRAR or SAMHA of the chart in local
nomvn4liature) 5 miles to the westwards. HASIK consists of
two deserted heaps of ancient ruins and is quite definetely saj
not the MOSCHA of the PEPJPLUS as has been suggested. Prom it
to MUKBAT is a favourite haunt of the French Navy on their
way to and from the Far East and invariably figures in the
programme of the French sloop that pays an annual visit to the |
Persian Gulf. This practice dates I think from the treatment
accorded to a wrecked French ship there some 20 years ago.
BAUTAHARA, MAHRA and ^ AN ABA tribesmen on that occasion scented | ;
a rich prize and were for making away with the crew. But the
late Shaikh of Murbat (his son and successor ( Ali f was my recent
guide there) inspired by more enlightened methods of profit,
appeared on the scene and suggested a four days respite in
which to arrange and: equitable division of the spoil. During
this time he got all his people there. He then made it known
that he was for sparing life and protecting property and
triumphantly declared to the braves that they must fight him
first' before laying a firngM® finger on those whom Allah had
all but delivered into their hands. Badu diplomacy, f/.
I do not think history is likely to repeat itself
especially after the exemplary Effects of the MASIBAB incident
of more tragic memory, and I suspect that the rude inhabitants
° j this parrt of the coast would at worst avoid intercourse