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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [61] (76/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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Arabia]
PORTS 6L
Hodeida, the only outlet of Yemen, the most popu
lous region of Arabia, has a poor harbour. It has a
breakwater and two entrances, of which the northern
is the easier. The sheltered area is not large enough
to take any but the smallest craft, and large vessels
must anchor some 2^ miles away m four fathoms ot
water. There is no quay or wharfage. A new pier
and two stone moles were constructed m 1908, but the
depth of water at the moles proved insufficient to allow
of lighters being brought alongside, so that stevedores
have to wade out to the lighters and all goods are
dumped on the beach. In a south-west wind,
between September and April, landing is at times
impossible. Coal can usually be had
About eight miles north of Hodeida there is a she!
tered inlet called Bauma, which runs up to withm two
miles of the town.
In 1909 the Turkish Government proposed to con
struct a new harbour about 10 miles north-west of
Hodeida at Ras el-Kethib, where there is a good
natural inlet, well protected from wind and with an
average depth of 28 or 29 ft. The new harbour was
to accommodate at least 15 vessels of moderate draught
and it was intended to build a stone jetty about
S 600 ft. lone, where vessels could be mooied. Ine
harbour was to be connected by a light narrow-gauge
line with Hodeida, and therefore with the projected
Sana-Hodeida Railway. A French syndicate ob
tained the concession, and construction began, but was
checked by the outbreak of the war te ^ wee °
Italv The cost was estimated at about £200 000.
The total trade of Hodeida in l909 ; the latest year
for which figures are available was valued at
£1 050 700. This was considerably less than the total,
viz. £1 846,000, returned for Jedda in that year. T e
Jed'da figure may, however, be too high, and since
that date Jedda's trade has certainly decreased, so
that it may well he that if figures were available it
would be found that Hodeida bad overtaken it.
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- 'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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