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t<3 KalUa's Kttseat gesture. On learning the details of the !'
settleaent they expressed their approval and readiness to give
their support, and left .the same day. H.H. was of opinion that n j
Fujalra*s expectation of help from that charter was a little ]
splaoed.as the honds of kinship "between the Quwasia would ! j i
outlive any policy of temporary e:q?ediency E.G., the support H
of the ShaVyiB by the Truoial sections.
The issues is the dispute were maislj two
(1) the insistence by Jujaira t hat Kalb* has no "haras" i.e.,
is an isolated town without rights to adjacent territory.
(2) th ® Sanctuary readily afforded by one Shaikh to the .enemies I
of the other Shaikh.
What led up to the collision is Hanadhaa was briefly
as follows. .4 man of some stasdims helos £ ia S to Kalha became 1
discontented with the treatment he received at the hands of the ||
Kalba Shaikh. He thereupon betook himself to Fmjaira where he
soon enjoyed the favour of the Shaikh of his new domicile. His
subsequent business visits to Kalba he made occasions for
vilifying the Kalba Shaikh. The latter suffered it for a time
but finally turned him out of Kalba and forbade him ever to
return. This roused the ire of the Fujaira Shaikh under whose
protection he was now living. 4 bloodless vendetta ensued :
each Shaikh boycotted the followers of the other and forbade
them fishing or diving in his waters. Meanwhile the Shaikh of
Kalba built a "godowm" in a garden on the road to Fujaira: and
the Fujaira Shaikh Shaikh conceiving it to be a veiled fort,
smote and destroyed it, alleging at the same time that Kalba ha
no right, in any case, to build outside town limits. See (l)
above. This was the signal for hostilities. Military defence
works were taken in hand by Kalba, and the forces of Fmjaira
came down and invested the gardens close by. The usual Arab
warfare took place and by a kind of poetic Justice one of the
three casualties was the Kalba deportee, who seems to have been
the w Mutaharrak”.
H.H's enquiries persuaded him that the cause of the
trouble was perhaps not to,? be found in these 'aineidehts