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'Routes in Arabia' [‎752] (783/852)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (425 folios). It was created in 1915. 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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752
R oute N o . 201— contd.
pointed this out as a proof of how authority (his) had been weak-
oned by the grant of the Constitution to me it appeared rather
an instance of Kurdish laziness, " constitutional" perhaps,
but in a different sense. Goan lies a mile or two back from the
Rubal up a small valley ; on the way to it after crossing the
Rubal we passed a four-cornered bastioned fort, ruined, upon
an eminence, which we were told had belonged to Muhammad
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Kurd, the last of the great chiefs of Rowanduz. Up the
same valley, about a mile above Goan, lies Diyanah, a small
Christian village.
On one part of Z5zik hill we found Kurdish villagers living
in tents. It is their custom to camp out at this season for
a month or so, partly for the sake of pasture, and partly to escape
the fleas which now infest their houses. This day we heard
the homely voice of the cuckoo, locally called bilbil.
ROWANDUZ to ASHKAR. Before leaving our
quarters, which were
in the summer Sarai
between upper and lower Rowanduz, the following obser
ved :—
To the north. —The valley of Garmuk running down towards
us on the other side of the Rubal or River, to which it
is tributary, with Dashtah Diyan behind it.
North hy east. —The ruined fort of Muhammad Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , also
beyond the Rubal.
To the north-east.—The Z5zik hill, likewise across the river,
2 to 3 miles distant.
To the east by north. —The valley of the Rubal above Row
anduz, as it comes down from Riayat.
To the east by south. —Hindarain, a big sloping hill, the
most closely connected with Rowanduz, of the sur
rounding mountains.
To the south by west. —The Armushah hill; a valley coming
down from the east between it and Hindarain is called
D5laku.
To the south-south-west. —Baijan, an isolated, very sharply
pointed hill, divided by a cleft on either side from the
hills next it.
From south-west to south-west by west. —The Kurak hill.
None of the above hills are many miles from Rowanduz, and
some of them are quite high, Armushah, Baijan and Kurak

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This volume contains descriptions of the 'more important of the known routes in Arabia proper' produced by the General Staff in Simla, India. It is divided up as follows:

Part I - Routes in North-Eastern, Eastern, and Southern Arabia.

Part II - Routes in South-Western, Western, and North-Western Arabia.

Part III - Miscellaneous Routes in Mesopotamia.

Appendix A - Information about Routes etc in the Rowanduz District by Abdullah Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Hereditary Chief of Rowanduz and ex-official of the Turkish Government.

Appendix B - Information relating to Navigation etc of the Tigris between Mosul and Baghdad supplied by our Raftsmen.

The volume contains a Glossary of Arabic Terms used in the route descriptions and a map of Arabia with the routes marked on it.

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1 volume (425 folios)
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Divided into three sections as outlined in the scope and content.

The file contains a contents page that lists all of the routes included on folios 6-13 and uses the original printed pagination system.

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Condition: A bound, printed volume.

Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Please note that f 424 is housed inside f 425.

Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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English in Latin script
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