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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [544] (588/733)
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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544
NAVIGATION OF THE
S hargah.
Shargah (the square tower) is in lat. 25° 21/ 40 // N 1
55° 29' 13" E., and bears S. 44}° W., nearly five and a quarter mikf
i he town stands on the eastern bank of the backwater, which is narrow
and shoal, being from one hundred to two hundred yards wide with
about three or four feet water at low tides. The entrance is about a
nule to the northward of the town, and, like all others on this coast has
a bar. It runs about three miles, to A boo Heyle, where it unites with
the backwater there. The western side is bounded by an insulated
sandbank, on which they are now erecting their huts. Sharo-ah is at
present the chief place of the Joasmec Tribe, and the head of it, Sultan
bin Suggur, chiefly resides here.
The town is long, narrow, and open : the defences are a fort a little in-
and, mounting six pieces of cannon, together with some detached towers
n case of alarm from an enemy, it is stockaded round with date trees
and wood sufficient for repelling the attack of Arabs, althongh of little
aTaiT ShT h 1 ' egUlar tro0pS - The inh! >bitants consist of the Joasmees,
ivom 2 Snn, -^nn T" and are variousl y
ri " H O,5 I 00 , men : but rrom m y own observation, aided by inqui-
: Thev Zv' Uld think in ,he pearl SeaSOn ' Whe » "ost numer-
Ze to four h T71 ,0 ^ 3 ' 500 0r 3 ' 800 - Shar g ah s ^ds from
iee to four hundred boats of various sizes to the pearl fishery Each
in 0 : toTe n e ul b aikh f T ^ ^ ^ ,0 tWO a " d doflars'acco^
^ut a
lakh
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
o^Ual'"'" 5 empl0yed - The retU ™ S are a '
fevv h s e ca C tZd y d f 7 SOme diS - anCe inland iS a COm P Ie,e desert . wi "' a
c :nr
superior backwnt^r f.' ool-Khyma, on account of its
this side the Gulf. ' 8061115 t0 f0 ™ ,he P rinci P al P^ce of trade on
gofdsmZXd1loflrl a d n ;r ^.dtbrT ,,le Th " ere '
dress. Sultan bin Sue^ur thp I f-' '.'"'y S'-'" orally adopt the Arab
Shaikh of all the places from J},,.,!' ' T! the exce P t i on of Ejman,
extreme, enterprising i r T 118 P' ace - He is crafty in the
more dignified in his min '' rab ' Ilas tolerab ' e abilities. He is
tends great good will to i 1 "' any 0 " ,e1 ' chief O" 'his coast. He pre-
possesfes a food T EngliSh ' bUt iS n0t ,0 be
-eh in feaf as reverence bv e ;he U H r ff a, ' ler 1 ^ 0ne ' and he is heId aS
erence by the different Shaikhs along the coast.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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