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stated*.,after proofs of the girl having been there had been
communicated to him*«*that the girl had died. I left the
matter over for disposal during my winter visit to the
Trucial Coast.
4. In the course of my recent tour in the R.X.M.S.
’’Lawrence 11 I arranged to visit Fujairah. The Senior
Naval Officer in H.M.S. ’’Triad” was at Muscat, and H.M.S.
"Cyclamen” was at Henjam.
5. On my arrival at Ghallah (Kalba) Shaikh Said bin
Hamad, the local representative of the Chief of Shargah,
came on board the "Lawrence” to see me, and I returned his
• visit ashore. He is the father-in-law of both Khalid
bin Ahmad, ex-Shaikh of Shargah, and Hamaltbin Abdullah of
Fujairah. He provided donkeys for my two Arab assist-
-ants, the Residency Agent, Shargah, and Khan Bahadur Haji
Abdur Razzaq to ride over to Fujairah, about five miles
distant, in order that Shaikh Hamad might be asked to visit
me the following day when the "Lawrence” anchored off
Ghataifah, his coastal village, as I had some business to
settle with him.
6. I asked Shaikh Said if he knew anything about
the Baluch girl: he replied "It is said that she died."
From other sources I have reason to suspect that Shaikh
Hamad sold her to Bedouin of the interior and that he
found himself unable to get her back.
7. Shaikh Said also told me that Shaikh Hamad was
unlikely to pbey my summons. I therefore asked the
Senior Naval Officer by wireless telegraph to join me.
8. Shaikh Hamad replied to my message the same night
that he would not come on board the "Lawrence" and that I
must meet him ashore.
9. It is a rule well3qiown to all the Shaikhs of the
Trucial Coast, and a custom which has been in force for
very many years that, whenever the "Lawrence" flying the
Resident’s