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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [189] (203/226)
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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APPX. I. OMAN,
189
2. Weights.—The weights given below are those autho
rised by the Sultan's Customs, and in general use in the
bazaars. The metric system is not used.
(a) 1 kiyas = 6 dollars, or 5-9375 oz.
24 kiyas=r 1 muscat mann or 9 lbs.
3 manns = l deli mann (28 lbs.) or "dast".
Specially used for sugar.
10 manns = l farasilah.
200 manns = l bahr.
{N ote .—Kiyas are sub-divided into half, quarter,
and eights of a Kiyas; and the Mann is divid
ed into half and quarter manns).
(&) The " farasilah " is used exclusively for weighing
dates. The dates are packed in reed baskets
of 1, li, and 2 farasilahs. The " bahr " is
also used only for dates in Muscat and Matrah.
(c) There is a " bahr " of 400 manns used for
weighing wood fuel in Muscat and Matrah;
and for weighing salt in all places.
(d) For rice, grain, sugar, and commodities sold by
the sack, the " gonia " (pi. gowani) is used.
1 gonia = 160 lbs. (locally).
15 gonias = l ton (approximately).
(N ote.- —1 gonia of flour) = 196 lbs.
(c) The " palli " and " farah " (wooden bowls) are
sometimes used in Muscat and Matrah for
measuring cereals in small quantities.
40 pallis = l farah.
20 farahs = l khondi.
</) In addition to the above there are local weights
for fuel in the Batineh, the chief source of
supply. They are very approximate.
1 waznah = 45 manns, or the approximate
weight of three men,
10 waznah = l murr or 450 mann,
4 mur = l kara or about 1800 mann.
These weights undergo some variation in
Sohar where—
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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).
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- 1 volume (112 folios)
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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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