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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [116] (158/733)
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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116
ROUTE FROM SHARGAH TO BRYMEE.
CAPTAIN HAMERTON'S ROUTE (ABRIDGED), IN JANUARY 1841),
FROM
SHARGAH TO BRYMEE.
Names.
Shargah
to
Fellah
Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
.
Bir Mo-
hafiz.
Ghureef.
Hours
10
Gibul
Yiff.
Brymee.
Direction,
Remarks.
13
SSE.
The road
tortu
ous, S.
by E. &
SSE.
Ditto.
s. by E, A spot on the desert, having a well with good water, and
three large trees, but no houses or tents whatever. No
trace of a road.
Ihe ascent the whole way was very gradual, over sandhills.
No forage whatever. A fine well.
An old ruined fort, in the midst of thick babool jungle,
having several wells of good water. Formerly be
longed to the Shuamis of Brymee, who were driven out
about fifty years ago by the Beni Kaab or Chaab. At
present occupied by the Beni Kuttub Bedouin Tribe.
Good forage in the cold season for camels.
A high peak, so called in the country of the Beni Kaab.
1 he track from Bir Mohafiz ov er hard sandhills : on its
right babool jungle ; some of the trees of considerable size.
The road very heavy, over and winding round the base of high
hills of sand, in many places so steep that the camels could
not ascend or descend. At seven and a half hours (from
the time of starting) entered a third range of hills, and an
hour after descended into a beautiful valley (called Hur-
mullioh), covered with wheat fields, just coming into ear
(the property of the Beni Kaab). In the valley were two
large towers, called Koheel and Jiburee, for the protection
of the cultivation.
S.
Brymee.
Brymee is a town of considerable size, built of sun-dried bricks, and
surrounded by a wall constructed of similar material; but the greater
part of the town is represented to be in a dilapidated state, and the wall
a perfect ruin. On the south side of the town, however, in an open
plain, is a fort, nearly square, surrounded by a dry ditch, about twenty-
foui fret wide, inside of which is a wall, about eight feet high, for the
protection of matchlockmen while defending the ditch. About thirty
feet distant, and inside of this wall, is the fort wall, about fourteen feet
in height, and five in thickness at the base, and at the top only eighteen
inches or two feet. It has round towers at the angles, but ill constructed,
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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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