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HISTORY OP THE INDIAN NAVY.
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1845. again sailed for the Arabian Coast, Lieutenant Albany M.
Grieve being Assistant-Surveyor. On his proceeding to Eng
land in 1846, the work was completed* by Lieutenant Grieve,f
who, assisted by Lieutenant Ward,J also surveyed the islands to
the west of Socotra. By the completion of the surveys of Com
mander Sanders and Lieutenant Grieve, the surveys of tbe
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Red Sea were connected, and thus the entire
coast line, from Cape Comorin to Eas Gulwainee on the African
continent, had been minutely examined and laid down by
the officers of the Indian Navy.
Besides Lieutenant Christopher, other officers of the Service
were employed on the north-east coast of Africa. Lieutenant Bar
ker, who had accompanied Sir W. Harris as astronomer during
his mission to the Court of Shoa, surveyed the coast of Africa
from Bab-el-Mandeb to Berberah, on the Soomalifcoast, and the
resultant chart was referred to by the late Sir Roderick Mur-
chison, in his address to the Royal Geographical Society, of the
27th of May, 1844. In 1848, Lieutenant Albany Grieve con
tinued the survey of the Soomali coast from Berberah to Ras
Gulwainee ; and, in February of that year. Lieutenant Crutten-
den, who, while employed at the wreck of the ' Memnon,' had
collected considerable information relative to the tribes on the
coast about Ras Assair, which he forwarded to Government,
proceeded on a visit, accompanied by Commander Campbell to a
powerful Soomali chief, and his researches among the Edoor,
or Western, branch, are embodied in a paper which appears
in Vol. VIII. of the Journal of the Royal Geographical
Society.§
On the 1st of March, 1844, Lieutenant Montriou was ap-
* The following were the charts resulting from the Surveys commenced by
Captain Haines and completed by Commander Sanders and Lieutenants Grrieve
and Barker:—" Gulf of Aden," Haines, Barker, and Grieve (1847); "Islands
west of Socotra," Grieve (1848); "North-East Coast of Arabia," Sanders and
Grieve (1849) ; "Gulf ofMacera," Grieve (1847). A Memoir, to accompany the
charts of that portion of the South-East Coast of Arabia, surveyed by Commander
Sanders and Lieutenant Grieve, was written by Assistant-Surgeon H. J. Carter,
of the 'Palinurus,' and may be found in Yol. III. of the Journal of the Bom
bay Branch of the Eoyal Asiatic Society, pp. 224-317. As previously mentioned,
the Memoir, in two parts, by Captain Haines, to accompany his charts of the
South-East Coast of Arabia, may be found in Yols. IX. and XY. of the "Journal
of the Royal Geographical Society."
f This eminent surveyor died suddenly on the 17th of January, 1858.
X Lieutenant (now Commander) C. Y. Ward, compiled the " Gulf of Aden
Pilot," published by the Admiralty in 1863.
§ "Memoir on the Westerner Edoor Tribes, inhabiting the Soomali coast,
with the Southern branches of the family of Darrood, resident on the banks of
the Webbi Shebeyli, commonly called the River Webbi." The Soomali tribes
inhabiting the coast to the westward of Burnt Island, are called the Edoor, while
the country from Ras Hafoon to Zeyla is called the Bur-e-Somal, and is divided
into two great tribes, which are again subdivided. In 1843, Lieutenant Crutten-
den had forwarded a memoir to Government on the Mijirtheyn, one of the
branches of the two great families of the Bur-e-Somal, whose habitat is the country
round Ras Hafoon,