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'Persian Gulf Gazetteer Part II, Geographical and Descriptive Materials, Section III Central Arabia' [‎84v] (173/258)

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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HELALIEH.— Village about four miles north of Khabara ; is ancicmt
Sbeva colony and npparcntly subject to Boreyda. . .
* TIP LAV AN (JEBEL).—One day's journey east of Toima. Tins rnncc is
I,,,,,;, to Hail ..1 tan. I»t. it ran. n o«h.«»l to «» J"'"'.
''Tirs""™;' ?,f o—f'-i ™ tS* sh°S" SMS
probably alien. ihoy ar mell tions these sections; Ibn
regarded as T B « d ^- Tb f ^^u^a^ted with boin? Sulaba). Ibn
and Gal)i . ... cm-ill md verv poor Heteyrn kindred, almost oui.-
There are ^ s0 , ^'V fiie Fukara som.whl't similar are the Bedowna section
castes, aiK c leD _ . . . . jjm Simra are about IClicyhar, and the
who supoly the Ha] ^ itn • y *, o- section contains 8 sub-divisions with
Noamsy in H®"® 4 Suevder i s a sub-division of Ibn Simra. The Auazim
common name of Adzcibah. Anezah and Harb families live among
(? Ilawazim; are Heteym. ^ P midland Ileteym are Beni Hash id.
Heteym but without interraarria D . Doughty reckons midland
Poor ^eteym women sometimra marryj' jqq ar g °"bject to Amir of Hail.
Ileteym at 6)0 beiU mo '^MeektoZ whole tribe. They are a widely
Guarmam allowed 3,500 m , Koweit on the one side and in the Tehama
di s tri>,ut..dracebe,n. ^^ofthose in Central Arabia is a
on^oth sides of Jidda on Kaseem and the Harb country; they
triangle between the Uarrat J r-' Trhpvha.r to Haiet and are found in
inhabit the Harrat Kheybar itself from Kheybar to mi Tll0
Nefud, on Jebel llej,!.. r and between rank «d with Sulaba
word Heteym ts used as a ^ ct , eelful , fr ank. dignified
below all Arab Benoui < il 11 ; riQ oUo lo^s civil to guests. The men
and honourable J ' 1 " ^ ome n more ' beautiful than amons the Bedouins.
are more robust and the armed and often good shots. Coffee drinking is
Men are good distinguished from Bedouins by their long
hardly seen among ttiem^ ^y^e d^ingui^ ^ a]id ^ ^ ^
blue sbir s. (5) (6) I ey •j r0lnedlri e S have always been among the
^ToUv excelled perhaps bv those of the Sherarat. The Heteym are inferior
1 ' r .Usnaba Shunters and sometimes kill ostriches. Some sections make
only to the buldba as uuu th«m at Khevbar. Men s side in their
cheeses of sheep and goa s mi Better armed than
r ? "B^uinr'S see ^ C generally. A to all from
most Bedouins, i" j t v / wUich accounts lor their comparatively tbriv-
pa, ...» Wk »
a ' Urk lIOWAZIN.-Tnbe said by Palgrave to be in part the ancestors of present
inhabitants of Jauf -el-Aamir. the other elements being Ta. and Bekr.
nOWEYSIN.— Poor tribe, despised by Bedouins and much on a par with
Sulaba. The Blunts met with them in Nefud north of Hail.
HUEIMEL.—See Feyd. ^ c , i
HUFEIE;. Hamlet short distance north-west (? north east) of Mukak.
AN Village in Northern Kaseem about 2^ miles south-west of
t , u Tt U about 11 mile south-east of Khab and its gardens extend
nearly ^ mUes. It lies in a hollow in Nefud and though surrounded by saud
its soil is not sandy.
HXJSSENI.—See Jauf -el-Aamir.
TTITWEIT or HOWEYAT.—According to Huber a village of 70 inhabitants
in the Uarrat Kheybar about 20 miles south of Haiet. Doughty calls it a palm-
hamlet of 40 houses in the border o£ the Kheybar Uatra. one joarney from Haiet
on way to Medina.

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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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