!['Reconnaissances in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, North-West Persia, and Luristan from April to October 1888. By Lt F R Maunsell, Intelligence Branch. In Two Volumes. Volume I: narrative report, description of larger towns and routes leading from them. Simla: Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Dept, 1890' [‎108r] (220/312)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x00004d/IOR_L_PS_20_144_0240.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'Reconnaissances in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, North-West Persia, and Luristan from April to October 1888. By Lt F R Maunsell, Intelligence Branch. In Two Volumes. Volume I: narrative report, description of larger towns and routes leading from them. Simla: Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Dept, 1890' [‎108r] (220/312)")
'Reconnaissances in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, North-West Persia, and Luristan from April to October 1888. By Lt F R Maunsell, Intelligence Branch. In Two Volumes. Volume I: narrative report, description of larger towns and routes leading from them. Simla: Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Dept, 1890' [108r] (220/312)
The record is made up of 1 volume (152 folios). It was created in 1890. 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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in public, and take part in the general conversation and talk to strangers
without hesitation.
They are good looking; and many harems are supplied from Hakkiari.
The Kurds are poor cultivators and prefer mountain districts, where they
can get pasturage for their flocks as well. Only enough grain is produced for
their absolute wants. Indeed they have no incentive to cultivate any more, as
it would only mean increased taxes with no means of exporting or selling the
produce.
The Kurdish mountains are a barren or rather an undeveloped country,
where cultivated fields or gardens are only to be found in the proximity
of a few towns; and pasturage is consequently the chief resource of the country.
Cheese, butter, honey, and sour curdled milk called “ yaurt ” are their chief
fond.
Route No. XL—Jazirah-ibn-Oroar to Baslikala through the
Hartoshi Mountains.
29Ui June to 12th July.
Stages.
Hours marching.
Distance,
Intermediate.
IN MILES.
Total.
Rate per diem in
miles per hour.
Shakh
400
11-5
1T5
2*88
Ghemishum Siki
425
13-5
25
2-93
Shernakh ... ...
4-00
12
37
3-00
Keni Mahwesik
6'G5
19
56
2-85
Bustasar
6 75
20
76
2-96
Maidan Jashush
5'33
15
91
2-80
Shiv Shalail ...
4-60
11
102
2-39
Khabt r
6-75
19
121
2-81
Nalak Khurreh
4-00
11
132
275
Merwanen
7-41
22
154
2-97
Khurkhmrut ...
5-66
17
171
3-00
Bashkala ...
9-83
30
201
3-05
30th June—General direction W. and S.W. Left the Jazirah bridge
(1,120') at 5-45 a.m., and started by a broad gravelly path over an undulating
country cut up by several small ravines.
Conglomerate rock appears here and there, and several small springs were
passed in the ravine. These ravines run south-east towards the Tigris.
At 5| miles pass a cluster of huts called Serau (1,990'). About 1^ miles
to the north-east is a rocky ridge with a rounded summit which runs east to
the Judi Dagh, and north-west along the left bank of the Tigris.
A road leads direct to Shernakh over this ridge avoiding the Gbelli pass,
which we take. It looks a rocky difficult track, but is generally used by the
nomads in their annual migrations. We turned east, skirting the foot of the
hill, the range about 1 mile from it ; crossing the summit (2,300') of a
rounded bare outlier from it, and descending towards the Nurdush.
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Narrative report on surveys conducted in Mesopotamia [Iraq], North-West Persia [Iran] and Luristan [Lorestān]. The preface provides the following information:
'The object was to explore various tracts of little known country through which roads lead north from the head of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. to the Waliat of Van and North-West Persia near Urmia. To accomplish this, two routes through Luristan from the Tigris valley were travelled. In southern Kurdistan the roads from Kifri to Sulaimaniah, from there to Rawanduz, and Rawanduz to Amadiyeh, were gone over in Turkey, and Suj-Bulak to Karmanshah through Sakiz and Sihna in Persia. The country south of lake Van to Mosul was traversed in the routes Amadiyeh to Mosul, Mosul to Jazirah, Jazirah to Bashkala, Bashkala to Urmia, and Urmia to Suj Bulak through Ushnu.'
The report contains the following illustrations:
- Tak-i-Girra, looking east (f 42).
- Sketch showing the Town of Rawanduz [Rāwāndūz], (f 63).
- Sketch showing the bridge at Rawanduz. (f 66).
- Sketch showing Amadiyeh [Al 'Amādīyah] from the north-east, (f 76).
- Sketch showing the bridge of Mosul (f 85).
The report contains the following maps:
- Pass of Tak-i-Girra, on the Baghdad-Kermanshah Route, December 1889 (f 41).
- Country in vicinity of Rawanduz, May 1889 (f 64).
- Plateau of Amadiyeh and surrounding country, June 1888 (f 74).
- Plan of Mosul and surrounding country, corrected from Jones' survey, August 1889, (f 87).
- Country between Feishkhabur [Fīsh Khābūr] and Zakho, June 1888, (f 101).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 154; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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