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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎605] (649/733)

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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.
O rmus.
Ormus was an island formerly the grand emporium of the Portuguese
commerce and power in the Gulf of Persia and Coast of Arabia. The
fort, built by the Portuguese, is in lat. 27° 5' 55" N., long. 56° 29' 5" E.
It js a barren rocky island, covered with salt, except the north-east part,
which is low and sandy. It has no water, except what is saved in
reservoirs during the rains. There are a number of these reservoirs in
good repair, and the ruins of some hundreds, which show what the
place has been. The old Portuguese lighthouse is still standing, though
last falling to decay. Large quantities of salt are exported from this
island to all parts of the Gulf, and Coasts of Arabia; the Imaum of
Muskat, to whom it belongs, keeps a garrison of about one hundred men
in the fort. There are about four hundred inhabitants, mostly employed
in the salt trade, and as fishermen; they are strict Mahomedans. There
is good anchorage to the eastward of the fort in a north-wester, and to
the westward in a south-easter.
I sland of K ishm.
The island of Kishm (Jazeerat Towile of the Arabs, Jazeerat JDras
of the Persians, and the Oaracta of Arrian) was visited by Nearchus in
his voyage from the Indus to the Euphrates. Arrian states that at that
time it produced abundance of corn, vines, and fruit of all descriptions.
I he Greeks, with their usual superstition, stated the tomb of the first
monarch of the island, named Erythras, was then in existence, and from
which they named the Gulf the Erythrian Sea. The island is fifty-four
miles long, and thirty-two wide in the broadest part, and nine in the
narrowest. Before the pirates became so powerful, it had about seventy
small towns and villages, and a population of about twenty thousand
inhabitants. A very great part of these were weavers ; others cultivated
the soil ; and others were fishermen. Most of these were destroyed, or
obliged to seek shelter elsewhere, during the time the pirates were' in
power : many are now returning ; but the island will never be what it is
said to have been again. It belongs to the Imaum of Muskat.
G oree.
Goree is a small village, producing a few dates, vegetables, and other
supplies, about five miles from Bassadore.
D rakoon.
, :Drakoon ^ a similar village, about a mile and three quarters above
Goree.
P oint N akoona.
Point Nakoona is a small projecting point, about a mile past Drakoon.

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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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