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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [‎1014] (51/688)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (341 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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1014
KAT—KAW
Other sections, entirely Bedouin, are to the Sultan's
Bait JacW and the Bait Masan: A! Kathi. probably nu m .
^Tout 6 teCn" the nomadic urces ^ in the artiolo
The settled Al Kathir are a g ncul ^ st8 ; ^ hiUs own camels and ca ttle and collect
on Dhufar Proper. The nomad sectwns clothin g and habits they very closely
frankincenseUketheQaras, whom m their a ^ of binding lt W1 th a
resemble, exeept th»t they ^ Cut it to reported to be quite different
fillet; their language « P^dOTinforOmSn and it ha, not as yet been properly inyesti-
gr/Some Al Kathir Bedouins ^ M ^ from Hadhramaul
8 The Al Kathir are a Hmam tnbe ^d , capital at Dahari.:
Tj'al Wdlito. 'The"to eomtot frietion between them and their Qara netghbours.
KATHIRI (Hisn-al)— j x fhp roast of Hadhramaut, Southern
Artb^" 100 miles from Mukalla.
The Kathob are also
KAT ri > eetion of the Qara tribe (j. v.) o£ Dhufar, Southern Arabia,
called Ma'ashani.
KATHRAN—
A section of the Fadhul tribe {q. v.) of Najd.
k ' u a vmagXwestern Hadhramaut, lying a few miles from Yashbum on the route to
Nisab, and belonging to the Ahl Ba Ras tribe.
KAURI ('A bd-al)— ^ ^ .
This island lies 60 miles west-south-west of Soqotrah, and o3 miles oast-noi ■ ea3
from C SuaSfui, and is 20 miles long and 3 i miles in width At ^ «nds Ae .stond
ia hillv the central part being a low plateau. On the north side is a san ^ ' .
Ras Hamairah towards its western end ; on the south side chffs rise a rupt y rom 0
ocean. The highest part of the island is towards its eastern end, where th e hiUs nse
to 1 670 feet. It is largely arid and there are no permanent streams. The mhabitant ,
who number one to two hundred, speak Soqotri and Arable and are eh.efly engaged m
diving for pearl shell on the Bacchus Bank to the north-east of theisiand. Theyl
chiefly on turtle, which abound on the island, and on fish and molluscs. The la id is
nowhere cultivated.
kawaikib—
A village in the Qatif oasis (q. v.), Eastern Arabia.
KAWAISAT (Dohat-al)—
An inlet in the coast of the Abu Dhabi Principalitv in 'Oman. It is on the western
side of the island of Al-Fazayah, extends 7 miles southward and is 1| miles wide inside
where there is a depth of 6 fathoms. The narrowest part of the entrance is said to be 4U
yards wide between small projecting reefs, with 3 fathoms water.
There are several rocky islets on the reef, which extends about half a mile off the coast,
between the entrance to D6hat-al-Kawaisat and Ras-al-Hazra.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot).
KAW AM—
One of the rural tribes of 'Iraq {q. v.).
KAWAM—
A fendy of the Karaiah section of the Bani Rabi'ah tribe {q. v.) of 'Iraq.

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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.

The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.

A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.

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1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.

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