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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎545] (589/733)

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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.
545
Cattle, very fine, though small, and other supplies, are to be had
here ; fresh water is procurable about half a mile from the town. Nearer
the entrance of the creek, to the southward of the town, is a mound of a
round form, which Mall be discerned before the town, and by which it
may be known. The shore may be approached, in case of an attack on
the town, to within two or three cable-lengths, but the anchorage is
very bad, being broken rock, and sand. You have here two and three
fathoms close to the beach, and five about a mile and a quarter out; but
you should not anchor under five fathoms, with the entrance of the
creek about SE.byS. Fish are plentiful. The inhabitants are all
strict Mahomedans, partly Soonees and partly Wahabees. It is high-
water here full and change at 12h. 40m., rise and fall between six and
seven feet.
A boo H eyle.
Aboo Heyle is a small village, situated aboul three miles to the SW.
of Shargah, on the same creek with Khan village, on the other bank'
J hey jointly contain about two hundred and fifty inhabitants, of various
tnbes, mostly fishermen, and are subject to Shargah.
D aua.
Dara, a small village in lat. 25° 16' 50" N., long. 55° 26' E., now de
serted and in ruins, was lately occupied by about four hundred of the
bomdan Tribe, having established themselves there after some quarrel
with the Shaikh of Shargah, when they quitted that place in 1826.
D ebaye.
Debaye, in lat. 25° 16 7 26 r/ N., long. 55° 24' 42' / E., bears from
Shargah S. 36 W., distant seven and a half miles, and stands, like mo^t
other towns on this coast, on the banks of a backwater, although rather
more elevated than most of them, being about twenty feet above the level
ot the sea. It is inhabited by about seven or eight hundred of the Benivas
Tribe and is defended by some towers. They are in some measure
dependent on the Imaum of Muskat, who pays for the alliance of this
tribe.
They possess several trading boats, and send a number of boats to the
pearl fishery. There were here about one hundred Siddees, in the pav
of the Imaum of Muskat, who formed a sort of garrison. Debaye may
be considered the end of the Pirate Coast, although I believe they never
took a very active part in it. There are several small banks off Debave
and the coast is fronted by a reef to the distance of about three-quarters
of a mile, extending nearly to Aboo Heyle. From this bank the
soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. are a fathom and a half close to it, five fathoms about a
mile and a half off, and increasing to seven, eight, and nine, four or five
miles off. The „se and fall are about seven feet; high-w^ter full and

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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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