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From - Shaikh Said hin Hamadj. Chief ©f Kalba.
x o ~ The Residency Agent, Shargah.
Dated 2Bth Dhil-He.ljeh 154? (= 20-7-25) 9
A.C.
T hog to state that ray neighbour's on the east rebuke ra©
that I have shown obedience to you and interviewed the Hon’ble
the Political esident and fined guns from my fort in honour, of
the Hon’ble the Political Resident(adthough this.was a very
little respect to him yet the value of presents (respects)
depends upon the circumstances of the man who submits same)
that I have ifak complied with the orders of H.M’s Government,
and have not taken action for the non-delivery of sailing boat
in the -fher.Fakkan. They have therefore openly retaliated upon
me and perhaps you have heard same since,for instance they have
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attacMed a.fort I have built near my palm garden in my summer
resort for the purpose of protecting ourselves‘against robbers
and the Bedouins, they have demolished same and have burnt its
doors and all wooden beams which were about it; they'have also
ruined the well dug in our boundary since the past five years
for the benefit of travellers so that I may be deprived of the
rewards I would get from God for same; they have likewise
burnt, down the house of the Baluchi whom I sent with you to
Fujairah as a punishment for his deed and with his house 15
'©ther houses with the furniture they contained are burnt down.
Fot content with all this that they have done they continually
send me threats saying that they w411 certainly spoil double
©f what have been spoiled by the men-ofwar at Fujairah, stating
that T have been the cause of the damages occurred to them and
that I. have striven to bring same about. They threatefi all my
subjects who may take arms to defend me and threaten the
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merchants that their claims against their/subloots shall not
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be paid unless they pay a heavy sum. These they do with a view
tofiumiliate me so that 1 may not again obey H.m’s Government
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but by their own will and agreement, his their aim shall not be
achieved because I am not a man like them who have become
puffed up at the forbearance of the Government towards them
f orgetting ...that t hey Mm i 1 la to themselves rather than baffling