The Sheikh pf Qatar, for his part, has claimed sovereignty over an area in the Abu Dhabi Sheikhdom running as far east as the Pabkhat matti. His Majesty's government has consistently refused to recognise claims so exaggerated by either partybut they have repeatedly intimated that they regardthe Ahor al Odeid, which lies about midway betweenthe extreme points reffered to, as appertaining toAbu Dhabi. They have also recognised the Abu Dhadiclaim to the district of 'Aqal, geographical detailsof which are given in 1 iii of the Appendix to thisnote and which contains both the whor al Odeidand the Khor adh Dhuwaihin. We thus have a fixedpoint for the South-eastern boundary of Qatar." Appendix. Boundary of Qatar.1. Extracts from Lorimer's Gazetteer. i. Qatar.(N. B.Mr. Lorimer's article on Qatar is statedto be the result of special enquiries madeover a number of years locally)Lorimer, Volume ii,page 1500 defines theboundary of Qatar as follows:- ...... The southern boundary is somewhat indeterminate.It begins at the foot of Dohat as Salwa on NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN. the western side of the senioseke promontory and from that point runs south-eastwards to the wells of Sakak; thence, according to one account, it strikes east-north-east to the north end of the Naqiyan sandhills, or, according to another, east by south to the southern endof the same hills on the north side of theentrance to Khor al Odrid. As the territory of theTrucial Sheikh of Abu bhabi has never been clearly asserted to extend beyond whor alOdeid and as the al Thani sheikhs of Qatar undoubtedly claim the Naqiyan tract, the latter
