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148 Lawrence G. Potter82 On telegraphs in the Gulf see Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Annex J,in vol. 5, pp. 2400–38.83 Abbas Amanat, Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the IranianMonarchy, 1831–1896 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), p. 404.84 Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, vol. 4, p. 2158.85 Kelly, Britain and the Persian Gulf, p. 560.86 Shahvar, “Communications, Qajar Irredentism, and the Strategies of British India,”part 2, pp. 572, 577–8.87 Goldsmid, Eastern Persia, p. xl.88 Ibid., p. xlii; also in Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, vol. 4, pp. 2160–61.89 Goldsmid, Eastern Persia, pp. xlv–xlvi.90 Shahvar, “Communications, Qajar Irredentism, and the Strategies of British India,”part 2, p. 592, fn. 83. The Persian government accepted the new border with theexception that Kouhak and part of the Mashkil Valley should belong to it, aposition finally accepted by Britain in 1896.91 Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, vol. 4, p. 2175.92 Shahvar, “Communications, Qajar Irredentism, and the Strategies of British India,”part 2, p. 594.93 Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question, p. 406; Lorimer, Gazetteer of the PersianGulf, vol. 4, pp. 2062–3; Fasa’i, Persia Under Qajar Rule, pp. 392–4, 397, 401–2;Nadjmabadi, “Arab Presence on the Iranian Coast.” Shaikh Mazkur became alocal hero for his resistance to the Persians. The Shaikh was captured after holdingout in the fortress of Qalat-e Sorkh, near the city of Gavbandi.94 On Jask see Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question, pp. 427–30; quote is onp. 429. Also Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, vol. 8, pp. 914–31.95 Sources on this include Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, vol. 4, pp. 2064–6and vol. 8, pp. 1088–1100, with ethnic breakdown on p. 1097; Curzon, Persiaand the Persian Question, pp. 409–10, and “Bandar-(e) Lenga,” by D. T. Pottsin Encyclopaedia Iranica (August 19, 2004) located online at (www.iranica.com/articles/ot_grp5/ot_bandar_lenga_20040819.html).96 This led many merchants to emigrate to or open agencies in the Trucial Coast,where business could be carried out more profitably – for example, importedgoods at Dubai could be sold 10 percent cheaper. See Lorimer, Gazetteer of thePersian Gulf, vol. 8, p. 1098.97 Ibid., vol. 4, p. 2066.98 Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question, p. 399.99 Burrell, “Aspects of the Reign of Muzaffar al-Din Shah of Persia 1896–1907,”p. 97.100 Kashani-Sabet, Frontier Fictions, p. 36.101 Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, vol. 4, p. 2048.