'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [607] (651/733)
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GULF OF PERSIA. 607
the northern point of the Luft and Coram Channel. After passing this
point three miles is a mosque, and an old rained house.
P eypusht.
Peypusht is a small village, nearly a mile inland, where some cattle
and poultry may be obtained. It is six and a half miles from the
mosque.
Z anobee.
Zanobee is a village, where cattle and poultry may be procured.
It contains about one hundred inhabitants. It is about two and a half
miles from Peypusht, and nearly a mile and a half inland.
B urgaum.
Durgaum is a fishing village, on the beach, six and a half miles
from Zanobee; it has about one hundred and twenty families, verv
poor. 3
K ishm.
r . rhe nort ^ P 0 ^ nt island of Kishm is in lat. 26° 59' 30' N., long.
56 14 E. Off it are two islets, and here is a place where vessels of
three or four hundred tons might, in case of necessity, be hauled on
shore to repair.
T own of K ishm.
The town of Kishm is in lat. 26° 57' 10' N., long. 56° 18' 50" E. It
is the principal town "on the island, and contains about two thousand
inhabitants. It has little trade, but is frequented by the trading vessels
passing up and down the Gulf. Most of its inhabitants are sailors and
fishermen; the former employ themselves on board the vessels belong
ing to Muskat, and other parts of the Gulf. A number of villages in
various parts of the island are under the government of the Shaikh of
this place. It was here, during the panic consequent on Captain
Thompson's failure at Beni Boo Ali, the troops were removed, and
were perched on a rock, where I have known a thermometer to burst at
160° when suspended to a tent rope. After five or six officers, and half
the men, had died, they were removed to Sallack. The anchorage is
good m a north-wester, but a chopping sea comes in with a south
easter - a bank runs in front of the town.
I sland of L arrack.
The island of Larrack is in lat. 26° 53' 30'" N., long. 54° 25' 10" E.
The fort is on the north side; the island has water on it, and is barren.
Good anchorage may be found under it in a north-wester or south-
easter.
B under S husa.
Bunder Shusa is a small bay, twelve miles from the point off Kishm
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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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