'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎542] (586/733)

5^' navigation of the
trade of the Gulf, and have a number of boats thus employed, of from
two hundred to forty tons. They trade to Bombay and the'Malabar
Coast during the north-east monsoon, and to the Red Sea: thev alsot a l-P
a large share in the pearl fishing.
To the ESE. of the old town are situated the date groves, amon 2
wh.eh are several towers. The former chief, now a dependent of the
bhaikh of Shargah, resides here, as Shaikh of the village of Himtial
Faal. Wells of indifferent water are found scattered about among the
date groves. In front of the town is a bank, with only seven or cHn
ect isater on jt, and within it two and a quarter and two and a halffa-
thorns. A ship in anchoring here should do so with the creek open, in
our and a half or five lathoms. Supplies of cattle, poultry, and other
refreshments are to be had here, at reasonable rates. The town was
completely destroyed by the Honorable Company's Marine, and parties
from the m.htary, when the force was removed to the opposite oo'ast in
1820; and so effectually was this done, that it is now difficult to tell
v ia might have been the form of the houses. This was done in the
heigh of the hot weather, and cost several officers and many valuable
n their lives from fever brought on by the exposure. It is high-
water here at llh. full and change, rise and fall seven feet.
Jazeerat al Hamra.
main aMmv' H '" nra ' . a sma " ls ' an d with a backwater, joined to the
fortified ii .Tf "','' ' a t<nVn ' WaS ' Prior t0 ,he edition in 1819,
and fiftv or t™ "t ''"r 18 n0W inhabi ' ed % about one hundred
ana nny or two hundred of thp t - u
employed in the pearl fishery • thev h 1 7 ^ P rinci P all y
ing boats. It is in lat 25° 43'N t i " tW0 0r three Smal1 trad '
water is shall,.,,- n j j ' and Ion S- 560 55 ' E. The back-
Shaikh is a depend"'.,tTff y ,| 0aP s| ble | O / h f OWing middle - siz ed boats. The
water here, and that quite brackish r here ^ ^ lit,ie
The coast between this and R,.! t iA S applies are procurable,
two fathoms inshore to fi ' 1°° yma 18 low ' with soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. from
distant; bottom sand' and broken rock" ^ and anCl a half ,nileS
Amulgavine.
Amulgavine, in lat. 25° 35 / 19" iv i
on the outer point of a vo • ' 41 SS" E., is situated
veral miles in different I "f 0118 " 6 ba ckwater, which runs inland se-
parts wi n b t. X C ' a " d haS SeVen falh0mS Waterin SOme
There are te^ or'eWe™::" P ^ ^^
and the rise of tide as le ai at S^" water full and change,
'own of Amnlgal; now ^ ^ 0f lhiS COaSt ' is f -- Tha
sequence. It bears fm™ a i J mns ' appears to have been of some con-
Al Hamra S. 57|° W., distant sixteen miles,