'Handbook of Hejaz' [18r] (42/204)
The record is made up of 1 volume (98 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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South of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Fura occurs a feature, as yet very ill-known,
but constituting apparently an interruption of the normal
slope of the littoral. This is the projection of a mass of
lava-capped rocks far to westward of the Gable Ridge of
the main continental shelf. This great intruded mass
of iron-bound highland cuts Hejaz almost into two parts,
between which there is no easy passage at all except through
the littoral near Rabugh, or far inland in the third zone,
and only very short and unimportant wadis originate on
the seaward flank of it. With this projection the Central
District ends ; and its fan-like spread north of this point
towards Medina accounts for the blank in our maps and
our knowledge of much of the eastern part of that district.
The chief settlements in the Central District are two on
the coast, Umlej and Yambo 5 ; large villages in Wadia
Yambo', Safrah, and Fura, such as Bedr Honein, Wasta, or
Modhiq; and Medina in the inner country.
Umlej, a village of some eighty houses with fort,
mosque, and small garrison, lies on a deep bay opening to
north-north-west opposite Hasani Island. There is a consi
derable, if thin, date-grove in the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
about one mile north
of the village, and others exist in the neighbourhood. Umlej
has grown in the last few years, owing to the facilities of its
bay for coasting craft, the existence of fairly easy tracks
to Istabl 'Antar station on the Hejaz railway (120 miles)
or to Medina direct (140 miles), and the comparative fertility
of the Tihamah hereabouts. It lies near, but south of, the
frontier between Billi and Juheinah territories. Although
faced by a dangerous reef, it should develop further in the
near future.
Yambo' el-Bahr is built on the edge of a barren
plain between the mountains and the sea, and walled on
the landward side. It stands on the north shore of a bay,
protected by a small sandy island on a reef which forms
the southern limit of the anchorage, and is used as the port
of Medina (130 miles). The entrance to the inlet is one
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- Content
The volume is Handbook of Hejaz. Prepared by The Arab Bureau, Cairo , 2nd edn, 26 February 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).
The handbook comprises information about Hejaz under the following headings:
- Area;
- Physical Character;
- Population;
- Districts and Towns;
- Tribal Notes;
- Political;
- Personalities (including Royal Family, and Others);
- Pilgrimage;
- Trade and Expenses;
- Communications;
- Routes.
The prefatory note states that the handbook was originally compiled by Lieutenant Commander D G Howarth, RNVR; and although the information contained in the second edition had been greatly improved, much about Hejaz 'remains uncertain or unknown'.
The volume also contains an 'Outline Map of Hejaz' (f 4) and a table of the 'Ruling Sherifial Family of Mecca' (f 38).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (98 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a table of contents on folio 7.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 100 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, 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. This is the system used to make reference to the contents of the volume. Folios 4 and 38 need to be folded out to be examined.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-179 (ff 8-98).
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- 'Handbook of Hejaz'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:99v, 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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