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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎541] (585/733)

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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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GULF OF PERSIA. 54]
an enterprising Shaikh, and who stood high, on account of his strict
u servance of the Wahabee tenets, with the late head of that faith,
w ose representative he was among the pirates ; but since the fall of
Ras-ool-Khyma, and his own hill fort of Zyah, it has fallen fast to
decay, and ts at present under the Shaikh of Shargah. There are in the
date groves about three or four hundred of the Tannagee tribe, the re-
mains of the former inhabitants. They send boats to the pearl fishery,
and at other times employ themselves in the trading boats of Ras-ool-
lyma, and in fishing. Some few supplies may be obtained here. The
soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. abreast here are three fathoms close to the beach, five to eleven
from one to three miles off shore ; bottom sand and broken rock. A
little to the southward of this place there is a small creek running nearly
from /yah to Ras-ool-Khyma, but not navigable. The whole eoast is
nat and marshy.
R as-ool -K hyma.
12^N o' e JP ape 0f ,he rren,) - The Point is in Iat - 25° 48'
tv. ' - i 0 ■ ^ was ' prior to the expedition in 1819-20
e principal pirate port; was surrounded on three sides with a wall'
flanked wuh towers, and to the south-westward of the town had a fur'
ther defence of a strong square fort or Ghuree, and was at that time
cInT 86 ! be .f. efended b y between six and seven thousand men, in-
! a T COlleC ' eCl rr0m lhe countr y about, and about
s ty boats of different sizes, from two hundred and fifty to forty or
fifty tons, some mounting eight and ten guns. They had also about
ty or seventy pieces of cannon, of various descriptions, mounted round
walls, but most of them would be considered unserviceable by Eu
ropeans. arge number of their best boats were sent to Lingah and
now employed'irTtrade.^ ^ eSCaPed beinS deS, ^ ed ' -
obtl„ ,h tL P rr Sent 'i 1 ™ 6 ' fl ' 0m lhe bes, informalion 1 have been able to
obtain there are about two thousand-four or five hundred inhabitants
tribes Shehaheen ;Mootarish, and strangers of various
tribes. 1 he Point forms the western side of the entrance to the back
water which runs ,11 about three miles, and is capable of receiving the
largest boats unladen. The entrance is blocked up by a bar the
channel is very narrow, not having more than two feet water at low-
feef 6 but"^! tKl0S ' The S0l,ndi,1 g s inside vary from sixteen to five
channel l0VV - Wa,er s P ri "g "des there is only a stream left in mid-
Opposite the ruined town inland is the island of Maharah, on which
ern S banli^of' th f ^ ,0Wn ™
Ghnree in t r ' ^ 18 ^^sing; they have a square
111 and severai g 0 °d houses. They now participate in the

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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)
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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.

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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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