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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎338] (357/1050)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (523 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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338
BAHRAIN
Name.
JanabTyah
Jannusan
Jasairaii
Jasrah .
Jau
Position.
Houses
and
population.
Near the west coast
1-| miles below Bu-
daiya'.
Near the north coast,
li miles west of
Qal'at-al-'Ajaj.
20 huts of Baharinah,
cultivators and fish
ermen.
On the east coast, 7J
miles from the south
end of the island.
On the west coast, 3
miles below Budai-
ya'.
On the east coast, 5
miles east-south-east
of Jabal-ad-Bukhan.
80 huts of Baharinah,
pearl divers and
fishermen.
35 reed huts of Sun-
nis, viz., 30 of Ka'-
aban and 5 of Ki-
blsah, pearl drivers
and fishermen.
50 reed huts of
Bani Khalid of the
Dawadah section,
engaged in the pearl
fisheries.
A few well built hous
es of stones, mud
and gypsum mor
tar and about 400
huts. The people
are all Sunnis and are
mostly engaged in
the pearl fisheries.
There are 80 house
holds of A1 Bu Ru-
inaih.
JazSir
On the west coast, 6
miles south-west of
Jabal-ad-Dukhan,
near Ras-al-Jazair.
Resembles 'Adaim
above.
remaeks.
in pearling, are
owned here. Don
keys number 25
and palms are
about 1,300.
Stands in a date-clump.
There are 8 donkeys,
2 cattle and not quite
1,000 date trees.
There are 15 donkeys
a'd 5 cattle. Date
palms are estimated
at 5,500, and there
are some peaches
and pomegranates,
besides, it is said,
a few vines and
apricots.
There are 11 pearl
boats here.
There is a small
date clump here
adjoining the sea.
Donkeys number 9
and cattle 2.
There are no dates,
but about 30 boats
are owned here, viz.,
4 Baqarahs and 28
Mashuwahs and jolly-
boats of which 23 are
pearl boats. Donkeys
number 8, and cattle
25. There are 2
routes to Jau from
Manamah towns,
one along the coast,
the other by Rifa-
ash-Sharqi. Jau
was the abode of the
A1 Bu Samait while
in Bahrain.
It is also called Halai-
tan.

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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.

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 (523 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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