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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [167] (181/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (112 folios). It was created in 1933. 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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CHAP. IX. ROUTES—TEUCIAL OMAN.
167
General Beport. —The route lies across a sandy plain
with sand dunes and occasional patches of shale and shingle.
Water is very scarce and frequently brackish. General
direction: East.
Hours.
Tntc.- Total. retailed Report,
insciiato
4 4 Direction East. The track crosses a level
saline plain until it strikes a tidal
creek. This creek is fordable only in
one place at low tide. This ford is call
ed EL MAQTA. There is a small fort
at EL MAQTA. The custodian directs
travellers as to where and when to cross.
5^ 9i Leaving EL MAQTA the track continues
east over sandy desert until NARSAILA
is reached. This place is known by an
outcrop of rock of peculiar shape, known
as HUSN TBLIS (or SUQ IBLIS).
There is no water.
1] 20^ The track passes through a region of large
sandhills, until it reaches MOWAJH
ARNAB. Here there are a few shallow
water holes. The water in these holes is
soon exhausted but gradually re-fills.
51 26 The track continues through sandhills to
BUL HOWAIL where are one or two
wells.
10 36 YAHAR (JAHAR or JUHAR). The
track crosses the WAM BATHA. After
If hours oasis country is reached. After
10 hours YAHAR, where there is one
well in a long patch of mimosa bushes.
JEBEL HAFIT is seen from here to the
south-east.
41 401 BARAIMI; the central village of the
OASIS.
A settlement of some 15-25 villages and hamlets of
which Baraimi is the chief. The population of the whole
might be some 5,000. The place is important strategically
as its occupation would be necessary to a hos 1 e orce
invading OMAN from the West, or for a descent on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
on the landward side.
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The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volume in the spelling 'Bahrein'.
The volume contains information in separate sections for each of the places listed in the title under the following chapter headings:
- I Historical (ff 8-14);
- II Geography, Climate, Health (ff 15-54);
- III Population (ff 54-67);
- IV Water Supply; Resources (ff 68-70);
- V Armed Forces (ff 70-75);
- VI Aviation (ff 75-78);
- VII Political (ff 79-81);
- VIII Inter-Communication [wireless and telegraph] (ff 81-82);
- IX Communications [land routes] (ff 83-98).
There are three appendices, which follow the same format:
- I Currency, Weights and Measures (f 99-102);
- II Landing Facilities - Maritime (ff 103-106);
- III List of Maps (f 106).
The volume includes five maps of the region (ff 109-113).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (112 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 113 on the last of the five maps inserted in a pocket attached to the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. All five maps (ff 109, 110, 111, 112, 113) need to folded out to be examined. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages in the volume.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-198 appears between ff 8-106.
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- 'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:iii-r, ii-v, iv-r:iv-v, 1:4, 1:208, v-r:v-v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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