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LAR-LAR
any ruler except of their own Kumzari Shaikh at Labtiab village, and up
to 1905 A.D. no visible signs of Persian authority existed, but the island
was said to be nominally included, along with the islands of Qishm and
Hormuz, among the places at present farmed by the Mu in-ut-lujjar of
Tehran.
Larak seems to have been at one time occupied by a non-Muhammadan
people, for a flat-topped hill on the east coast is covered with hundreds_ of
graves! all of which run east and west. A large valley between Labtiab
village and this curious hill and all the flat ground upon the circumference
of the island appear to have been highly cultivated at some former time ,
the evidence consists in remains of water-channels and embankments.
The following table embodies the chief facts of the topography of
Name
of
place.
Kuh .
Labtiab
Larak .
Salmi .
Position.
Houses and inhabi
tants.
In the interior of the
island.
A dozen houses of T
Dhahuriyin.
♦
On the north coast
of the island.
Ja
30 houses, mostly 1
stone, of the Shihuh
section of Kumzari.
f
On the west coast
of the island.
Nil . .
Remarks.
gers, graziers and fishermen,
owning boats. Water is
from 2 reservoirs and live
stock amount to 50 sheep
and 200 goats. Date trees
number about 50 and a patch
or two of barley are culti
vated. There are the ruins
of an old fort and the
ground near by, ^called
Kharabistan, bears traces
of former occupation by a
civilised people.
This village is also called
Larak and is the chief
one on the island. It has
a date-grove and near
by is an old fort in toler
able repair, said to be
Portuguese. There is sweet
water from one well and
two reservoirs. The people
are fishermen and the only
industry is a little fish
curing ; livestock amount
to 5 donkeys and 200 sheep
and goats. The people o wn
a few small boats, but no
large ones.
See Labtiab above.
A deserted site with a Well
of sweet water.
(Lorimer, 1906.)