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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [186] (200/226)
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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186
APPX. I. I1ASA,
^T? ere ^ 0re a 7 essel have capacity of 200
gallas " would in English terms have a capacitv of 1
of 200 i.e., 10 tons. ^ 0i 2^
3. Measures—
(a) 1 dhra (standard of measure) equal to 18 ins.
2 dhras equal to 1 war or yard.
2 yards or from tip to tip of the outstretched
arms equal 1 ba' or fathom.
Also used—
1 shibr {i.e., span) approx. equal to 9 ins.
2 shibrs equal to 1 dhra.
(b) Distances by road are described in farasakhs
(farasakh—3 miles) but more commonly in
hours (sa'at).
(c) Among date cultivators a rather loose measure
of time is in use called Wadha. It serves to
denote the period during which a cultivator
may use all the flow from a common spring.
The " wadha " is the space of 12 daylight
hours, and is divided into | wadha % wadha
i wadha, etc.
(d) At sea, watches called " zam " (pi., " zawam ")
are used. A " zam " is a four hour watch.
The first watch is that from sunset (Arabic
12 o'clock) to 4 o'clock (Arabic). When coast
ing in sight of land the " zam " is 12
farsakhs = 36 miles (calculated by distance bet
ween landmarks).
C.—HASA.
1. Currency. In the Hasa ports the riyal and the
! ml 1 gol(i lira are current but the Rupee is also accept
ed. The Government of Ibn Saud has now standardised
the riyal at 40 qirsh or 160 tawilahs.
Qirsh are minted in coins of: —
1 qirsh minted 4 tawilahs.
i qirsh minted 2 tawilahs.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/141
- Title
- '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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence