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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [19v] (43/168)
The record is made up of 1 volume (80 folios). It was created in 1922-1923. 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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Cwaur.
Oalog.
from Chahbar from which it is about 3£ miles distant. It
may, under certain circumstances, be considered a more
convenient landing place and base to work from.
In calm weather a large number of ships could anchor
in 5 fathoms about 2 miles from the beach.
The coast between Chahbar and Tlz point is marked by
the termination of the tableland in cliffs about 150 feet
high which slope down to a sandy beach, backed by a
valley north of the point.
Only the beach is available for landing troops and
stores. It is f mile in length and 100 yards wide, and
gradually slopes down to the water’s edge. It is sandy
and easy to land upon. Boats drawing 5 feet can approach
within 20 yards of it. No facilities exist, but stone for
constructing wharfs, etc., is obtainable quite near by,
though timber is scarce.
Water is sweet and there is plenty of it obtainable from
3 wells in the bed of the Nunkhan! Nullah. Other wells
could be sunk.
Gwatar.~-ls equally divided between British and Persian
territory. The village and the mouth of the river
Dashtiari Chll are in Persia. There is no harbour, and
the roadstead is shallow, exposed and unsuitable for large
vessels. There is an anchorage in 4 fathoms wdthin 2 miles
of the shore but shoals were reported in 1915. The inhabi
tants belong to the Maid tribe. They number about 1,000
and are all fishermen. The Customs Department have an
official here.
Gdlag .—Is a small dirty village of about 15 fishermen’s
huts on the east side of the eastern branch of the delta
of the Rapch river about 700 yards from the river mouth.
The roadstead is open, and about 3 miles from the
shore, where the anchorage, in 7 fathoms, has good holding
ground.
There are five boats of 20 tons employed in trade with
Masqat, Qishm and other places. It is reported that,
owdng to the bar silting up, boats have now some difficulty
in entering.
A good landing place is situated just inside the
entrance of the river to the east side, on to a steep beach.
Men can land drysbod. Ship’s boats can enter in fins
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The volume is entitled Military Report on Persia. Volume IV Part I. Persian Baluchistan, Kerman and Bandar Abbas. (Simla, Government Central Press, 1923). The volume was originally published in 1921.
The report contains sections on history, geography, population, climate and health, resources, military affairs, communications, and political matters. Appendices give the following information: details of nomad tribes of Kerman Province; a list of Chiefs and Headmen in Persian Baluchistan, who are in receipt of subsidies from the Indo-European Telegraph Department (IETD); statistics of natural resources; and distribution statement of the Sarhad Levy Corps on 1 July 1922. There are also seven maps (folios 75-81), entitled:
- Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. IV Part I.
- Kerman and environs
- Bandar Abbas
- Diagram of Mirjawa station yard
- Diagram of Duzdap station yard
- Signalling and heliograph posts between Chahbar and Geh
- Sketch Map shewing communications between Kerman and Saidabad
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (80 folios)
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Includes a list of contents on folio 4; and an index on folios 67-73.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 82; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:74v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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