"14/196 معاقبة شيخ الفجيرة. الشيخ حمد بن عبد الله الشرقي." [و‎‎٢‎٣‎٧] (٥٣٠/٤٨٧)

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No. 289 *
Bated* 26th September 1932*
from* The Residency Agent,Shargah*
To* The Secretary to the Political Resident in the
Persian Gu£f* Bushire*
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I have the honour to report for your information^*'^
for twe past two years Shaikh Hamad bin Abdullah al~
aharQti headman of the village Fuj air ah was claiming that
Bedouins from the Beni Katak; ' tribesmen killed three of his
subjects in the neighbourhood of the Ham valley^and also
a^ut i?alj/property of the Buler of hmm-ul-qaiwain, xhe
Shaikh of the tribe mentioned and his subjects, were deny*
ing this and said that the Manasir and the Awamir bedoujnjj
committed the crime* The headman of Fujairah did not
accept what they said*
in view of this the headman of Fujairah sent three o||
his subjects to to g residence of the Shaikh of the Beni
Katab * a watering-place named Bir-Ali (Ali* s well).Here
they did not find the Shaikh and went to the house of one
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of the notables of the tribesmen named Mel flam bin Rashid
passing themselves for guests* The said person made supperjjj
for them which they ate and he then led them in prayers.
After these were over they sat down talking together with
some other Bedouin who had collected there by that time*
Sleeping time having come on the host brought beds for
' them and they slept while he was sleeping near them*
men it was mid-night the three men got up and
shot their host dead and ran away to the mountains .Those
of the Beni Katab who were present collected and pursued
them,but it was dark and the murderers having hidden them
selves in the mountains they could not be arrested.
The headman of Fujairah has prohibited his
subjects from communicating with the Oman Coast by land
and collecting about 100 men he went to village fellah I
situated in the mountain. In this village there are a sp»j
spring of water ani elate trees telonglng to the dottier