'Extracts from Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia by J G Lorimer CIE, Indian Civil Service' [‎78r] (160/180)

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Uniformity of physical, social and political conditions throughout that part 'OMAN*
of 'Oman which extends from the frontier of the 'Oman Sultanate on the east to (TRUCIAL)
Qatar and the Jafurah desert on the west requires that the region should be treated iPP-1425-51]
as a geographical unit.
The name Trucial 'Oman. —The region in question consists of the actual
possessions of the Shaikhs of 'Ajman, Abu Dhabi, Dibai, Umm-al -Qaiwain and
Sharjah and of the territories of the tribes who, in fact or in theory, are directly
* The matter of this article and of the minor articles dependent upon it has been for the mos
part specially collected during the years 1904 to 1907. An abstract of the then existing information
concerning trucial 'Oman was completed by the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. in November 1904 from all available books
and reports; it amounted to 17 printed foolscap pages and was only intended to serve as a basis for
further investigation. Early in 1905 the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. visited Sharjah Town, where with the assistance of
Mr J C. Gaskin, Uncovenanted Political Assistant in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and of'Abdul Latif, Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
A^ent at Sharjah, he was able to collect a quantity of fresh information. A series of articles prepared
from the material thus obtained was ready in January 1906 and filled 55 octavo pages of print; this
draft was circulated to the local officers whose attention it engaged during the whole of 1906. The
greater part of the work of revision and amplification fell on Major P. Z. Cox, Resident in the Persian
Gulf who in July 1906 paid a special visit to Fujairah, and on K. B. 'Abdul Latif-bin-'Abdur Rahman,
Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent at Sharjah, who undertook such of the inquiries as Major Cox was unable to carry
out personally. In the next set of drafts, which appeared early in 1907 and extended to over 120
octavo pages of print, were incorporated the results of an important journey made by Major Cox in
December 1905 from Ras-al -Khaimah Town to the Baraimi Oasis; also those of careful inquiries by
the same officer regarding the Dhafrah tract; new data relating to communications obtained by
Lieutenant C. H. Gabriel at the end of 1905; the facts contained in a series of useful reports by Captain
F B Prideaux, Political Aeent in Bahrain, on the whole coastal region between Qatar and Abu Dhabi
Town- the observations of Commander W. S. Bowman of H.M.S. " Sphinx " on the islands of Ba
Musa 'and Tunb, recorded after a visit to the same; and some remarks by Captain A. P. Trevor,
Assistant Resident, on the islands of Tunb and Nabiyu Tunb, also founded on a personal inspection.
For discussions of the ancient geography Sprenger's Alte Geographic Arabiens, 1875, and Miles
Note on Pliny's Geography of the East Coast of Arabia, 1875, may be consulted.
The principal authority in regard to the geography of Trucial 'Oman has hitherto been the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot, 1898, in which the coast and all maritime features are fully described, but little is
said of the interior; similarly restricted in its scope, for the most part, is the older information
contained in Bombay Selections XXIV, 1856. Valuable though early authorities on the country are
Whitelock's Account of the Arabs, etc., and his Description of the Arabian Coast, 1836-38 the former
of which is occupied largely with the subject of population. Trade, as it was in 1863, and questions
of local resources, taxation, etc., are fully dealt with by Pelly in his Report on the Tribes, etc., around
the Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1863, in which some older statistics for 1826 and 1831 are also quoted
Recent topographical and other information regarding the interior is due almost entirely to ^ la J or
P. Z Cox. among whose communications the following are important: his Notes to accompany Sketch
Map of Route . . .from Abu Thabi to Ma skat in the Proceedings of the Government ot "dia in he
Foreign Department for December 1903 (relating to the route between Abu Dhabi Town and the
Baraimi Oasis); his letter No. 290 of the 2nd July 1902 in Foreign
November 1902 (relating to the Shamailiyah district); and the enclosure to his n^I^tripnt to the
5th August 1906, as Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. to the Secretary in the ^ T he
Government of India (describing the route from Ras-al -Khaimah Town to the ^^^ 1] 0 d S1 ? und in
only other modern account of any part of the country at a distance from Hpcrnntinn of nlaces
the Rev. S. M. Zwemer's Three Journeys in Northern Oman, 190 2 ; but a g ^ bi
on the coast, accompanied by photographs, is given by Burchardt in is ^
^The Annual Administration and Commercial Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. are the
principal source of information in regard to trade. nf Trnrial
The map which accompanies this Gazetteer is the most useful, or gen PP. ' o, on ^
'Oman; its predecessor in this respect was that known as Parts of ra la 0 f Ueutenant-
same scale. Smaller portions of the region are shown on a larger sca ^ , Indian Ocean to
Colonel Herbert Disbrowe ... and Captain Walter Powell f^n/Ma m 7 ^Zant
Ras-el-Khvmah in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1865, and in the Route taken } i a] ' ^ "t j s ma p
C. A. Scott, R.I.M., from Ras-al-Khaima to Sohar via Beraimi 1905; the
1366 in the Library of the Foreign Department, Simla, and ^ e J^ lte ^^/rnv from native informal
of India in 1907. A Map of Dhafrah, Liwah, etc., 1906, compiled by a J . . as m Na ^35-7
tion, gives the topography of that tract so far as it could aint p C R PriHeaux Political A^ent
in the Library of the Foreign Department, Simla; ^ r'., t M at \i 1906 Foreign
in Bahrain, from a similar source,-M^ of Jafurah, Aqal, Mijan
Department Library No. 1365-is the best for the tracts mentioned in its title, but is not eqi
authority with Major Cox's Dhafrah map for those further to eas ^' 1 ^ 90^7 a and 2374-2837B of the
The whole coast of Trucial 'Oman appears in Charts Nos - on a
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. -, and Chart No. 2375-753, Entrance of'^/j rs ' an £ u ^J""^JTt lZ Sha'am to
larger scale, viz., the stretch from Djbah to Khor Fak k!" °" ® between Abu Dhabi Town and the
Dibai on the western side of the 'Oman Promontory. Of the co nf the Arabian or southern
island of Yas the best delineation will be found in * Tngonomemcal Suwy^ ^
side of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from Abothubbee to Zaboot Islan f l '^„ ' ketch of Part of Khor -al-Batin was
numbered 19B, but it seems to have been withdrawn. A sma ot - n fUp writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. and is now
prepared by Commander G. Sinclair, R.I.M., in 1906 for the information of the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. , ana
map No. 1364 in the Library of the Foreign Department, Simla. ^ ^
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