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Say that we talk about this trip, which was a German traveler trip was wide, including Kuwait, should offer a look at the situation here in 1903 AD.
This was the year are the seventh since the Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah ruling the country, and the country was close Testament battle big hit them very much and especially morally a battle Sarif (17/03/1901 AD), but things appeared to be in the year 1903 as she was walking in the pace of the semi-usual is not Akderha but some skirmishes which traditionally play here or there on the border of Kuwait, but prepare for the protection was good, and the element of repelling aggression was strong, and I've mentioned that this year has seen the establishment of a continuous Sheikh Mubarak in the country's capital, and saw the stationing of his son, Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak with his army Jahra in case of any emergency may occur.
The Convention on the protection has been concluded between Kuwait and Britain, but it was a secret to this year, but the events that are mentioned here prompted Britain to its announcement has told Lord Anzdon in the British House of Lords that Kuwait under the protection of Britain was this statement in the year in which we talk about what happened which (1903 m).
This was the Foreign Minister of Britain - at the time - and has good positions against the Ottomans interference in the affairs of Kuwait.
This has coincided special event to announce the agreement with the opening of the British Political Agency in Kuwait application of what we have referred to above.
This has seen this year - also - several activities related to official visits, and discussions of the feasibility of a good benefit returned to the country, and reinforced its position.
Among the most important of the visit, a visit by the British governor of India, Lord Curzon, began in the twenty-eighth day of November of the year 1903. It was interesting, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah visit this great, have prepared a program full of joyful celebrations expressing appreciation for this great guest, and has had important talks with him (see detailed and wide about this visit in our book: Features of the history of Kuwait).
On the sixth day of the month of May of the same year, he arrived in Kuwait person Frenchman named Cookie with facilities to him, has a solution guests of Sheikh Mubarak, and the French to provide a gift to Sheikh is a gun-type shotgun, has held two men arms deal in favor of Kuwait Sheikh .
In a book entitled «Kuwait News» annexation messages agent news for Britain in Kuwait in 1899 until the year 1904. A book edited and presented him with my brother Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Al-Ghoneim, and published by Center for Research and Studies on Kuwait in the year 2007, we find a story of the events of the year 1903 is, according to the text: «arrived in Kuwait warships, one Russian and the other French, and arrived after 5 hours of sunrise in 5 month of Dhu al-Hijjah, and after they arrived an hour down by two men from the ship Russian warships to visit a Sheikh Mubarak, and the two men were of sexual Persian namely Haji Abdul Redha and Haji Ahmed, has they have told Sheikh Mubarak said the Russian Consul will descend from the ship the next day, and will address the food with him (with Mubarak), as at least the Sheikh Mubarak also said the consul wished that the Sheikh Sabah visited the ship and watch them and therefore the Sheikh Mubarak and Sheikh Sabah picked up 10 men in this visit, and in day 6 of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, descended the Russian Consul in Meith captain of the ship, In addition to the commander of the French ship and two of its officers to the beach and visited Sheikh Mubarak, who were greeted warmly and literature ».
The message was contained to this news have been written in the eighth day of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah of the year 1320 AH, corresponding to the eighth day of March of the year 1903.
In this period came to Kuwait man of tourists, but this time the German, because the majority of visitors were from Kuwait British, and especially in those distant period of time. This is a tourist Herman Bear Cardt who visited the region as a whole, and he stopped at Kuwait in the year 1903.
This visit was a German explorer and traveler to Kuwait in the last month of the year that we have mentioned, a man who belongs to the family works to trade on a large scale, and therefore extensive wealth. And because of that he was possessed the means by which to help him do numerous trips and long pierce through vast distances, and was often resolves in regions not seen one of the explorers before him.
Herman Bo Cardt had worked with his father in the trade for several years, and in spite of his success where it is not satisfied with his work, since he had aspirations to trips and explorations, and he wanted to visit the largest possible number of countries, particularly Arab countries, in the north Africa and the Middle East. The alert in this period to pay special feeling to request more knowledge of the Islamic Middle.
It was during this period responsive to the wishes of his father to continue in business, but this situation has changed in the year 1890 when the father dies, and he found himself free and able to act according to his own desires, and found the way open for it to be implemented as eager to himself from the starting towards the countries that he was thinking much had. Even so, it is poised joined the institute in eastern Berlin and remained there to the year 1892, where he left after he received all the necessary information and was able to bring with him well-versed in the Arabic language, and science Palmothorat own Arab areas they wish to visit.
The first trips to Damascus, which has become the base of all trips. Including briefed on what he needs to know to Syria and around and continued traveling to Mesopotamia, Persia and the Arabian Peninsula, and the Gulf states in the year 1903 and the year 1904, and make a lot of money in order to achieve all those trips, and was proficient in the art photography are interested in the acquisition of tools , did not pass, but the area is depicted Mifatt view of the buildings and people and landscapes, and others.
Did not stop at the recent trip in 1904, but continued after a short way in nomadic until he reached Yemen who was in it died, he was assassinated in 1909, and went, leaving a considerable amount of images that record his travels and his observations there, and leaving a book combining affinity installed the results of those trips with a description of each step of the way in which, has written this book in German, then translated into English and printed in several editions and is still circulating among the people, especially of them that like reading travel literature.
Concern us here trip Herman Bear Cardt to Kuwait, which it received in the year 1903, and this was part of his visit to the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, a trip peered out on this island from the city of Basra, and walked finished to the city of Muscat, and Oataath the opportunity to watch the Arabian Gulf Coast whole , did not care about any troubles incurred by the methods that followed in his travels, he traveled by boat local, leaving the vessels shipping line business will find the comfort, but the desire to see everything on the nature and observes the lives of the people who work on the boat were of the main reasons for his eagerness to incurring the odds, and the use of this method difficult even be closer to reality, and even armchair human realities.
He arrived in Kuwait on a ship of the type (Album) and solving them in today's atheist tenth of the month of December of the year that we have mentioned, and went - off - to Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah to visit and pay tribute to him, and that was in the House of Sheikh who used to receive the people in the middle market, which is the headquarters known so far on behalf of the booth Mubarak Al-Sabah, who did not stop us from neglect of modesty and selling falafel and samosas in it.
Sheikh Mubarak received this strange visitor and welcomed him well, and every one of its people in order to accompany him on his rounds inside the city, all of this has been the happiest Herman Prcardt, and felt from the first moment that his trip to Kuwait successful sense of the word.
Not only did that but Sheikh hosted the guy next to him from distant lands and has been designated a comfortable room and wide in his palace, and ordered all his staff to provide all respect and appreciation for this guest who noted the great interest which he was treated by the these.
And he had another meeting with Sheikh Mubarak later that same afternoon, and during this meeting occur Sheikh to host for the visit by Lord Curzon to Kuwait, also spoke to him about the visit of three men from the Germans came to him in order to discuss the issue of the railway, has already we talked about this in a number of articles, in addition to what was stated in our book: «repressor in literature and history».
This will come back to detail what he saw in the capital, which toured in which several rounds observers and auditors and a photographer, and was seen first reception room exploited by Sheikh Mubarak to meet his guests, has stated Bear Cardt they are furnished to the European system, saying that the furniture, curtains and carpets are all imported, and are present in this Badi room system demonstrates the taste enjoyed by Sheikh should show the impact of always coming to him. The first photograph taken by our friend in Kuwait are a picture of Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, which finds the reader with this article and has over this large number of images, it was photography hobby has Krahlat, and was full of his hobbies and spend it without the expense, and without hesitation, indicating that these trips multiple and which of his money, as evidenced by the amount of pictures that left behind, and most are now of paramount importance, particularly with regard to Kuwait because it is more important to us than others.
In spite of this backpacker did not mean from behind his trip, which took him to Kuwait any intentions of political or economic, the Sheikh Mubarak raised with some of these issues, as we saw a little while ago when talking to Bear Cardt for the German project for the railway and the people who visited him in Kuwait for this project, which planned to end his stay so that when Saif repressor. The comment was a backpacker to talk to Sheikh man has good information on the unusually, he was a man thinks - error - that is Sheikh mm far from the things that he talked about.
Photos Prcardt many things in Kuwait, and that he Pictures coal market, and it was charcoal and water, dates brought from the port city on donkeys and camels for sale, and you see a female camel and her baby was standing beside her, still Mosoukh, and there are a number of donkeys carrying near the water bright because of the water filtrate of them, and sold charcoal in baskets scheduled from palm fronds (Zblan), and imported charcoal and drinking water to the need for them in every home, we have were basic commodities, and the men were Astrunhma day, as if it were a chore school, so we did not see women so much and images proof of that. This was part of his speech.
Our friend then spoke, saying:
«We got to Kuwait in today's atheist th of the month of December and we had to, to boarding the small boat and then have us donkey for some distance until we get to the coast, I visited Sheikh Mubarak directly, who had held his council at that time in the market, and gave him a letter of recommendation from the governor of Basra, and the speech was directed manner official who called Sheikh «Pasha Kuwait» has received me Mubarak received cordially and ordered one of his followers to take me on a tour of the city and when I came back after a while to the palace of Sheikh spacious welcoming, which includes a number of buildings, have been prepared in a room for me and provided bedding and linens «sheets» also found as well as soap pads and Germany, and although we were in the month of Ramadan - the month of fasting - have dealt with my meals regularly because I am a non-Muslim ».
And continues by saying: «attended by Sheikh afternoon and asked me to be followed, and sat Sheikh on a bench in a room and wide furnished with furniture European, and suspended two figures of Queen Victoria and Prince Edward and touched Haddatna- again- to the recent visit by Lord Curzon the Viceroy of India, and who call him in Basra «governor Calcutta».
When Sheikh said that Lord Curzon (Viceroy of India from 1898 until 1905) is not only the ruler of Calcutta, but the governor of each of India and governs more than 300 million people looked on Sheikh surprise and reiterated «300 million!».
He adds: «Mubarak has looked great personality, has a lot of information for a man east, and he was the person Alouhad- of the Senate who has known them in Rahlta- specifications ruling».
Our friend spoke about his observations in Kuwait and described many of the things that have been observed as people overlooking the country from a remote location is different in nature and the nature of his family from what is in our country, he said:
«Kuwait City extended Eskinha- all Takid- 30 thousand people, and the streets are clean, and also noted the streets sweep regularly sprayed with water early in the morning, and suffer Sheikh city several times a day riding his vehicle or riding his horse, is said to have security where full and self-sustaining.
The climate in Kuwait really hot, and must measure the water which was a commodity business, and it was necessary to import grain in return, are exported wool grease and sheep skins of animals, as was the pearl fishing and shipbuilding, navigation and shipping goods by ship from professions main population.
And small ships anchored in the Gulf of repressor to protect them from the wind (meant in John Kuwait), and the company has an office of British India naval ships that arrive Bwaka to Kuwait every 14 days, and after settling on the English almost 5 miles outside the port ».
Herman Prcardt spent four days in Kuwait enjoying the hospitality of Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, moving freely from one place to another in this country that I love and impressed Bashikhha.
Perhaps one of the most important observations that mentioned and cherish today existence what he said about hygiene enjoyed by Kuwait at that time run, saying that the streets sweep regularly sprayed with water early in the morning, and if we have noted that the Department of the Kuwait Municipality did not start its work only in the year 1930 and found that this work Jalil, who became a municipality of tasks later with an indication of the tendency for the love of cleanliness and care for the environment at the time, and this is what makes us wonder: Is not this work done by a specialist and watched? There is no doubt that it exists, even if it does not exist what happened regularity referred to by the man but unfortunately we have not found yet something written tells us the nature of government agencies at the time of Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, a hardware that thought that a hygiene supervisor of the work, which he described this but the man is a part of other government agencies.
Finally, the time came to leave, who spoke with him Prcardt saying: «called Sheikh on December 14, and installed the ship again, and joined us a number of other sailors and they wanted to do the work-peer traveling to Bahrain, and life was on board the ship as follows:
-1 When dawn is breaking stems voice of the muezzin calling for prayer:
Allah is the greatest
Come to prayer
Prayer is better than sleep
-2 Perform ablution and everyone who prayed.
-3 Being ablution and prayer five times a day.
-4 If the weather is appropriate and favorable wind, they spend the rest of the time, drinking coffee, and sew clothes and sails and are looking for vermin and dangerous animals.
-5 If the weather is stormy, they sail, put sea water from the ship ».
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This is Herman Prcardt trip to Kuwait, a second part that concerns us from the big trip, and we have found some of the important features for Kuwait at the beginning of the twentieth century, which features added to the pool in our papers for Kuwait, and its history, who missed a lot of us Onbaúh.
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