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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVT.
The survey of the south coast of Arabia, by Commander
Haines, was suspended for a period of thirteen months, during
the time he conducted the survey of, and negotiations for, the
occupation of Socotra, but, early in 1835, he proceeded in the
4 ' to resume the survey of the coast from the Straits
of Babel man deb to Misenaat in 50° 37' E. He had under his
command the following staff of highly scientific officers:
Lieutenants Sanders (Assistant-Survej'or), Jardine, and Shep-
pard. Midshipmen An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. Rennie, Cruttenden, A. Grieve, Ball, Stevens,
and Barrow, and Assistant-Surgeon Hulton. The result
of this important and most admirable survey, was a chart of
the south coast of Arabia, from Ras Misenaat to the entrance of
the Red Sea, on a scale of six inches to a degree, together with
numerous plans, and a detailed and most valuable memoir,*
" giving," as he says, " a description of about 500 miles of the
southern coast of Arabia, hitherto almost unknown, and an
account of its population, government and commerce."
In the months of February and March, 1836, Commander
Haines surveyed the Kooria Mooria group of islands, off Sher-
badhat, on the Arabian coast. These islands, five in number,
are named Hellaneea, Jibleea, Soda, Haske, and Kirzawet
(called Grhurzood by Commander Haines), the smallest of the
group. Assistant-Surgeon Hulton, of the 'Palinurus,' wrote
an interesting account of these islands in a paper, which appears
in Vol. XI. of the " Journal of the Royal Geographical Society,"
and Commander Haines 'gave turther details in his private
journal. While lying off this part of the coast, Mr. Midshipman An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer.
Cruttenden made an excursion from Morbat to Dyreez, the
principal town of Dafar, of which he wrote a description in a
Memoir, which appears in Vol. I. of the " Transactions of the
Bombay Geographical Society." A few months later, when
the officers of the ' Palinurus' were surveying Mocha Roads,
Mr. Cruttenden, accompanied by Dr. Hulton, started on the
13th of July to visit Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, where they
sheets), 1838 and 1845. Lieutenant Christopher wrote an account of Adam's
Bridge and Ramisseram, with a plan of the Temple (" Transactions of the
Bombay Geographical Society," vol. vii.)
While employed in Ceylon, Lieutenant Felix Jones, says Markham, visited and
fixed Adam's Peak and the Horton Plains, descending by the Caltura River, 01
which he made a survey, in company with Major-General Adams, who fell at
Inkermann. They pushed their way] over the highest ranges by the elephant
paths, there being then no constructed roads. The Memoir on the Paumben
Passage and Adam's Bridge, by Lieutenants Ethersey and Powell, which sbould
have accompanied their charts, was not published until the year 1869.
* The Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. communicated this Memoir to the Royal Geo
graphical Society, and an abridgment was published in vol. ix. of their Journal.
In vol. xv., also, there appears Part 2 of this memoir, dealing with the coast to
the east of Misenaat, as far as the town of Sohar, near Ras el Hadd, which had not
been so minutely surveyed as the portion to the westward, together with an
appendix containing remarks on the navigation of the Gulf of Aden, and other
cognate matters. Both these papers were accompanied by valuable maps reduced
from the charts.