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'Persian Gulf Gazetteer Part II, Geographical and Descriptive Materials, Section III Central Arabia' [‎38v] (81/258)

The record is made up of 1 volume (125 folios). It was created in 1904. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Pal^rave from native information gives in addition the following routes : (i)
Riadh to Nejran, via Kharfa, AVadi Dowasir (10 days in extent), Koia (? 2
days in extent). Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Seleyyel (3 days in extent), Nojran (reached in 2 days
from Seleyyel) ; (ii) Riadh to Mecca via Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Hanifa and Shakra ; (m) Shakra
to Aneyza \ (iv) Riadh to Zulfa and thence to Zobeir, Jebel Shammar or
Kaseem. Articles on these places also contain references to communications,
especially that on Kaseem. (6) The products of Nejd are chiefly pastoral,
among the principal being ghi and wool. Horses are largely bred by the
Bedouin tribes and are collected for exportation chiefly in liaseem, at Aneyza
and Boreyda. These are the " Aneyza horses " of the Bombay stables and are
sent via Koweit. Camels are abundant and those of the southern tribes are
commonly blackish and smaller in stature than those of the northern diras.
Northern tribes prefer larger dun-coloured camels which, they say,
are better tempered and more tractable. Cattle are commoner
in the south than in the north and are most in the Yemma district; they
are small limbed and all have humps. There are no buffaloes. Sheep are
numerous and those of the Harb tribe are mostly black; all are broad-tailed
and their wool is fine ; they fetch a high, but not highest, price in the Damas
cus market and are exported in other directions also. Palgrave thought Nejd.
mi^ht supply half the Ottoman Empire with wool and mutton. Kaseem dates
are exported to Hail and in some seasons to Mecca, while ghi is sent from
Riadh to Hofhuf and from Boreyda and Aneyza to Mecca. There is usually
no surplus of corn, but when the price is high in the Holy Cities some goes
from Kaseem. Game are partridges, quail, sandgrouse, pigeon, bustard and ga
zelle ; wild boar are common in the mountains. Palgrave says there are no gnats
mosquitoes, fleas or snakes and very few flies. Among foreign imports noticed
by Doughty are clothing from Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and English medicines. ^ The
weights, measures and currency of Biadh are described by Pelly in Appendix IX
of his report. (7) Pelly remnrks on the impossibility of forming a close esti
mate of the population : from the nature of the country it is sparse, except in
certain localities. Excluding Hasa, Katif and Ojair, Pelly's estimate is 81,000
of a settled population and 1H,300 Bedouins; Palgrave's, with the same deduc
tions, 959,000 and 76,500 Doughty says there are less than 60,000 males
among the Bedouins. Pelly's figures appear not to include women or children.
The people may be divided into settled tribes and nomads, but even townsmen
are of pure Bedouin descent and recognise their connection with their still
wandering brethren of the s ime name. The only tribes of non-Bedouin des
cent are also non-Arab and of inferior status, such as the Sanis (artificers) and
the Sulaba. The classiflcations by Doughty and Ross of the Arab tribes seem
inconsistent. Doughty apparently divides the descendants of Modhar into two
branches, those of the line of Elyas and those of the line of Keys. The only
representatives of Elyas mentioned by him as found in Nejd are Beni Temim.
From his account it would seem that the representatives of Keys in Nejd
are the Ateyba, the Sbeya, and 5 tribes whom he groups together as belonging
to a section called Yam, viz., the A1 Morrah, Beni Khalid, Ajman, Beni Hajir
and Shamir. He also mentions the Muteyr as descended from Modhar but
does not specify the line to which they belong. As Doughty calls the Muteyr
and the Beni Temim Ishmaelites, it must be assumed that all descendants of
Modhar are non -Kahtanic. 'ibis does not agree with Ross's account in which
the Ajman, A1 Morrah and Beni Hajir, besides the Bureya, Asim, and Dowasir
(not apparently classified by Doughty) are Kahtanic. The Bakoom and Sabe-
yaa are non -Kahtanic in Ross's view. From Palgrave's account of the tribes
of Nejd it is impossible (with 2 exceptions) to understand which he considered
to be Kahtanic and which not; he insists principUlv on the unlikeness of the
Beni Temim to the others and the Beni Temim he distinctly calls Nezar, i.e.,
non -Kahtanic. In his account of the Dahna he calls the A1 Morrah Kahtanic,
aareeing with Boss. Palgrave makes the Beni Temim predominate in the south
ern districts of Aaredh, Aflaj, Yemama and Downsir and peoples the northern
districts of Sedeyr, Kaseem and Washain with other tribes of whom he gives no
clear account. From Doughty's account passim, it must, on the contrary, be
inferred that the Beni Temim are exceedingly strong in Kaseem. Negroes are
fouud in all paits of Nejd. Those in the north are all slaves. In the south they

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The volume is Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer Part II, Geographical and Descriptive Materials, Section III Central Arabia (Simla: G C Press, 1904).

The volume contains notes, followed by subsections on Central Arabia, south of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Rummah [ Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Rumah] and Central Arabia, north of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Rummah [ Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Rumah]. The volume is a geographical and descriptive gazetteer, giving information on alphabetically-listed places in the territories in question.

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1 volume (125 folios)
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There is a table of contents on the title page of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 127 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A printed pagination sequence also runs intermittently throughout the volume.

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