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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1592] (671/688)
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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1592
RUOS-AL-JlBlL
Name.
Mukhi
On the west-side of
the entrance of the
Qidah cove.
On the northern
shore of Ghubbat
Shabus.
Near Limah
Muntaf
Musallih
Musandam Island
Nadhifi ... On the west side of
a little land-locked
cove in the south
shore of Khor-ash-
Sham, I mile south
east of Fanakhah.
Qabal (Dohat) .. On the east coast 6
miles north of
Limah.
Village of 70 houses,
of which only 30
are at present in-
habited.
Village of 15 houses
Village of 15 houses
Inlet 1J miles wide
at the entrance : it
runs inland for over
3 miles turning
south as it goes.
R emarks.
tant i» an emigrant
from Sibi who
quarrelled with hia
wife and removed to
this place with his
daughter. He has a
boat.
People are Bani Hadiya
Shihuh and live by
fishing ; they own 10
fishing boats. There
are wells of fairly
good water.
People are Dhahuri*
yin, owning 6 or 7
fishing boats.
A habitat of the Bani-
al-Asamm.
See article Musandam
Island.
People are Bani Hadiyah
Shihuh. The cove
would be a convenient
place to lay a vessel
aground. There are
4 or 5 fishing boats.
The cove teems with
fish. In a valley at
its head are several
huts of Bani Shatair
Shihuh. They are
heardsmen and fisher
men and their
diet consists large
ly of shellfish
(Strombus Baluchi-
ensts), but they have
on ly 1 boat. In a
western branch of
the same valley are
ruins of an extensive
village which was
built of large stones
without mortar. This
place is closely con
nected with Limah
by land, and there is
said to be a route
from here over the
hills to Khasab.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 975:1092, 1092a:1092f, 1093:1110, 1110a:1110f, 1111:1328, 1328a:1328f, 1329:1386, 1386a:1386f, 1387:1446, 1446a:1446f, 1447:1448, 1448a:1448f, 1449:1542, 1542a:1542f, 1543:1600, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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