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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [21] (58/733)
The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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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PIRATE PORTS.
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inhabited a few years ago, when the attacks of Joasim pirates com
pelled the families it contained to seek refuge on the opposite shore.
Water is to be procured on its north-east end, where the town stands.
It is separated from the main by a channel, said to be five miles wide,
and free from danger.
This island, being low, and rocks lying off some parts of it, must be
neared with caution in the night.
Its southern extremity, in lat. 26° 27' N., is situated about ten
leagues W.byN. | N.from the south end of Polior.
Inderabia.
Inderabia is a low, level, narrow island, with a few trees on it; is
about three miles long. The strait which divides it from the main is
three miles wide, and is said to be clear of danger, as is the channel
between Kenn or Kass, and the main, which is considerably wider.
Ships running for shelter under this must not approach its south-east
end within one mile, until a remarkable tree, which stands by itself,
bears WN W.
The south end of Inderabia is in lat, 26 o 40'N., and the island is about
seven leagues distant from Kenn.
Busheab.
Busheab, subject to the Shaikh of Nakheeloo, is an inhabited island
of moderate height, level, and with some groves of date trees. There
is a fine pearl fishery round the island.
It may be sixteen miles in length, and five or six miles broad.
This island is separated from the main by a channel of considerable
width, particularly at its western end, from which runs a long ledge of
rocks. It is said that rocks lie off its south-east end.
Shitwar.
Shitwar, a sandy islet, without trees, is close to the east end of
Busheab; between them is a channel, through which you have not less
than three fathoms.
Between Shitwar and the Persian Coast there is a channel five miles
broad; as the bottom is rocky hereabouts, the
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
irregular
towards the main, and some ripplings, it is not improbable there are
hidden dangers. , . , .
The south -east end of Shitwar lies in lat. 26° 47' N,, and is thirteen
or fourteen leagues from the outer part of Kenn or Kass.
Nakheeloo,
A town under the domination of the Wahabees, is situated on the
Persian shore, opposite to the island of Shitwar, and within a point
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
- Physical characteristics
Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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