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'Supplement to Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III' [‎67v] (139/234)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (115 folios). It was created in 1918. 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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70
LAND EOUTES
From 1914 to the autumn of 1917 it would appear that pack-
transport was used on this route. Thus the German detachment
which marched from Mosul to Suleimaniyeh in 1916, having used
four-horse vehicles for its transport as far as Kirkuk, employed mule-
transport from Kirkuk to Suleimaniyeh.
It was reported in 1917 that the road from Kirkuk to Suleimaniyeh
was expected to be made fit for wheels by about the end of October,
In May 1918 it was reported passable for wheels.
The Baziyan defile is only just wide enough for two (mule ?)
caravans to pass.
The Khanjiru or Bakhan, if unbridged, may be a serious obstacle
in spring and until May.
(6) Water. (Compare p. 242 in text, 2nd paragraph.)
It appears that on the route described by Soane (F below) water
is scarce between Kirkuk and Chemchemal, is obtainable in the
Baziyan valley, and is moderately plentiful in the Suleimaniyeh
plain.
(c) Villages.
According to Soane (1910) the only villages on the road between
Chemchemal and Suleimaniyeh are Baba Merda and a small village
near the Khanjiru (Bakhan) stream ; and these are deserted from
early April to November, the inhabitants moving away to pasture
their flocks. Encampments of Hamawand are to be found on both
sides of the road in the Baziyan valley, or in the plain W. of Baba
Merda, at certain seasons of the year, and particularly in spring and
early summer,
Hony marks a number of places on or near this part of the road
(see additions to D below). But it is uncertain whether all of these
are permanent villages. There is the same uncertainty with regard
to the localities mentioned in the Russian report (Gr below).
(A), pp. 242-243.
m. 41. For Deir Gezin read Dergazin.
m. 50. 'The road crosses the hills by an easy pass.' If this is the
pass in C (of text), m. 50^, and in Soane and the Russian
report (F and Gr below), it can hardly be called easy.
There is no reference in the other authorities to any
other pass over these hills but the one which they describe.

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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Corrections and Additions to Volume III: Central Mesopotamia with Southern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Naval Staff Intelligence Department: June, 1918). It supplements Volume III (IOR/L/MIL/17/41/4) which includes routes along the middle Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad to Fellūjeh [Fallujah] up to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah]. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office. These corrections and additions are based partly on information dating from before the Mesopotamian Campaign and partly on intelligence from 1917-1918.

The volume contains a note on confidentiality, title page, 'Note', and 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of contents which includes 'Corrections and Additions to Itineraries' for River Routes and Land Routes, 'Corrections and Additions to Gazetteer of Towns', and 'Corrections and Additions to Appendix'. Several pages have been left blank for convenience of use with interleaved copies of the original edition.

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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).

Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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