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'Handbook of Yemen' [18v] (41/190)
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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(4) Hais, 'situated about twenty miles south-east of
Zebid, at the junction of two main roads, to Ta f iz and
to Ibb, and on the telegraph line from Hodeidah to Mokhah,
is a small town much decayed. Population now, probably,
not above 2,000.
(4) Mokhah, once the chiel centre of the Yemen coffee
trade, lies in a small bay between two low points about
one and a quarter miles apart, on each of which are the
ruins of a fort. Between the forts extends a wall which
allows access to the town by one gate, called the Bab
esh-Shadli. Opposite this gate, on the sea front, is a stone
jetty which is, however, in a state of decay. The town
covers about half a square mile of ground, and, in its pros
perity, must have had rather an imposing appearance from
seaward. The houses are stone-built and were originally
large and whitened, but are now mostly in ruins; the only
buildings of any importance still standing intact are the
mosques, of which some have lofty conspicuous minarets,
the highest in the eastern part of the town, 118 feet high,
being a good landmark. The streets are very narrow, and
in places have become impassable from the debris. Mokhah
no longer holds any position as a trading port. In 1824 it
contained about 20,000 inhabitants ; in 1882 the inhabitants
within the walls had dwindled to 1,500. A floating popu
lation, composed of Arabs, Somalis, and Jews, lives in huts
outside the walls, and with this reckoned in, the total popu
lation within and without will be between 5,000 and 8,000.
The country round Mokhah is a sterile plain, without fresh
\v ater; good water is brought from Musa by a conduit;
brackish water may also be obtained from wells at Beilili
and Suweif, five miles to the east. Normally, a small
urkish garrison is kept to serve three batteries. On the
^ ® , 0 j 1 ® south port stands a framework iron tower,
eet igh, with a flashing light, visible nineteeen miles.
Telegraph to (a) San'a, via TViz; (6) Hodeidah, via Zebid;
(c) erim, overland to Sheikh Sa'id, and thence by cable
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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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- Title
- '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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