'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎844] (899/1050)

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HIIF A L —
See Mabrah ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
HlZA (Al)—
A good well near the southern edge of the great Nafud desert where in good years
they find abundant pasture. The HIza well lies east-north-east of Tayma and at a
distance from that oasis of some 35 miles,—{Doughty).
HIZAIYIM (B ait T ribe)—
See Ka'ab.
HIZAM—
A village in Yemen, about 42 miles north-east of Sana 'a, and 5 miles to the west o£
the Sana'a-Riyadh route,—(-Hater's Map of Arabia, 1908.)
HIZMAH—-
A village in south-western Arabia on the edge of the Bahr-as-Safi desert and some
five miles from Marib {q.v.),
HIZMlN ( T ribe)—
See 'Ataibah ; Roqah division,
HIZWAH—
See 'Aridh (District),
HIZWAH—
See Mutair tribe ; Hawamil section of the Aulad Wasil.
HTZYAZ—
A mountain village, in Yemen, which according to Hunter's map is a mile or
two to the south of 'Artaz, which is the northern junction of the alternative routes
from Qa'tabah to Sana 'a. This place is probably identical with Esias, shown on
Maunsell's map as being about 8 miles south of Sana a,
HOB—
See Jabir ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Bani) (II).
HOBAIDAH—
Hodaidah, the only part of Yemen having any considerable commercial importance, is
situated on the Red Sea in lat. 14° 47' N.
In 1897 the population was estimated at over 50,000, but no census has ever been taken.
Bury, 1913, estimates it at 42,000, including a British Indian community of about 1,000
and 100 Europeans, mostly Greeks, who have shops. Somalis, Abyssinians and Arabs
from the Hadhramaut are very numerous ; but Arabs from the inland highlands are
surprisingly few,
Hodaidah has no quay or wharfage, nor any of the conveniences of a trading port; the
old primitive wooden pier has fallen into decay. There is a small harbour, available
only for the smallest craft, with two projecting moles of stone (each with a light about
15 feet high at the end) and a breakwater and two entrances, of which the northern is
slightly the easier of access. After the moles were constructed it was found that the
water was not deep enough to allow loaded lighters to come alongside, so the stevedores
have to wade, and merchandise for shipment or just landed is dumped down on the beach.
Large vessels anchor about 2| miles off in four fathoms ; merchandise is transferred in
native craft. Landing is difficult and, at times, impossible with the wind between south
and west.
The Ottoman Government conceived a scheme for constructing a harbour for Hodaidah,
about 10 miles to the north, where there is a deep natural inlet protected by a long spit
known as Ras el-Ketib, and this was part of a larger undertaking known as theHodaidah-
Sana'a Railway scheme. The harbour was to be linked up with Hodaidah by a metre