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'Handbook of Yemen' [15v] (35/190)
The record is made up of 1 volume (91 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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(1) Loheiah is a fair-sized Red Sea port, situated on the
northern side of a small shallow bay, with poor anchorage
for small craft only, and difficult of approach because of
reefs. It has
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
traffic with Jiddah, Hodeidah, and
Aden, exports small quantities of coffee, and imports grain.
The population is about 5,000, and seems to have risen in
recent years, for in 1881 the number of inhabitants was
estimated at 2,000 only. There are several hillocks at the
back of the town, on one of which (alt. 150 feet) is a fort
of some strength where some modern guns are mounted.
Loheiah is used as a base of operations in Asir ; the garrison,
normally, however, is a battalion. Water is scarce and
brackish. There is telegraphic communication, south with
Hodeidah, and north with Midi.
(2) Sa dah is the northernmost town in Yemen, the focus
of Zeidism and the seat of the original Zeidist dynasty. It
is said to be as large as the native (Arab) quarters of San'a;
to be surrounded by an old and ruinous wall and to be in a
plain wider than that of San f a, with much cultivation and
irrigation from very shallow wells. The gates are five:
suq and government buildings are in the south quarter, as
is also the chief mosque (El Hadi).
Eastward of Sa dah the tribes [see pp. 11, 57) soon begin
to be reported semi-nomadic or wholly nomadic, a sure sign
that down-like pastoral country prevails. This region has
the reputation of being bleak and inclement and appar-
entlj it deteriorates to steppe and even desert, till the
great depression of Nejran, the settled centre of the
semi-nomadic Yam clans, is reached.
South of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mur, as far as Hodeidah, the littoral is
v® r > unfertile and almost desert, but fertility begins with
the first foothills; and from these lands and the control of
the caravan traffic up
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mur come the means of
existence of the Beni Suleil, who own one village almost
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- Content
The volume is Handbook of Yemen. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo , 1st edn, 15 January 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).
The handbook contains information about Yemen under the following headings:
- Area;
- Physical Character (including Relief and Climate);
- Population;
- Districts and Towns;
- Agriculture and Industries;
- Trade (including Currency, and Weights and Measures);
- Political;
- Yemen Army Corps;
- Tribal Notes;
- Personalities;
- Communications;
- Routes.
The prefatory note states that the handbook had been compiled by Major K Cornwallis and Lieutenant-Commander D G Hogarth, RNVR from information obtained in Cairo (especially about tribes and personalities) and from material prepared for the Arabia Handbook issued by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division.
The volume contains an 'Outline Map of Yemen' (f 6).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (91 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (f 5).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 93 on the inside 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. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages within the volume.
Pagination: the volume also has an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-167 (ff 7-92).
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- 'Handbook of Yemen'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:92v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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