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'Handbook of Yemen' [22v] (49/190)
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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v.— AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES.
The inhabitants of Yemen are in the main settled and
in great part occupied in cultivation, and the climatic con
ditions which favour the pastoral or Bedouin type do not
exist generally, except in parts of the littoral plain and
on the eastern plateau. Yemen has ever been noted for
its agriculture and general fertility; but this fame is
due chiefly to the Highlands not to the Tihamah, which
is mostly dusty steppe, except where great wddis cut their
way through to the sea.
The principal crops of the region as a whole are coffee,
maize, red and white millet, bearded wheat and barley,
sesame, indigo, and cotton. The distribution of crops,,
according to zone, is much as follows :—
The Tihamah is, in the main, sterile and saline ; but
gardens may be maintained near some of the larger sea ports
by constant irrigation, while further inland towards the
foothills there are broad arable tracts formed of detritus
brought down from the heights. The crops of this belt
are red and white millet, maize, sesame, cotton, and indigo
(around Beit el-Faqih and Zebid), but neither of the two
last in any great quantity. These crops, as a whole, depend
on the spring rains and will ripen three months after sowing..
On the inner edge of the Tihamah, where they get the
margin of the summer storms, as many as three crops of
millet can be obtained from one sowing.
Along the hills of the Maritime Range little cultivation
is possible (except in those valleys of considerable size
wh^te flood-water comes down and can be utilized). The
country is well bushed, but there is little soil to cultivate,
the surface drainage water is not enough for irrigation
purposes, and the population is scanty. The crops, such
as they are, are grown in the spring, as the rain falls in
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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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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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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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