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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [25r] (54/168)
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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occasions have harboured’ as many as 600 refugees. la
cn adjoining compound, 130 yards by 50 yards, are its
own post and telegraph offices, hospital, infantry lines
and a large well giving an ample supply of brackish water,
practically undrinkable. The defensible 6-foot mud wall
surrounding the whole has circular bastions for flank
defence.
On the eastern outskirts of the town. 20 feet above the
river bed and 150 feet west of it, is a carauansarai.
Ships at Bandar Abbas drawing up to 17 feet can anchor Harbo “ r -
2 miles from the beach. There is an anchorage in 4
fathoms 2£ miles out, for 2 miles each side of the town.
Ships approach and anchor on the lead. Holding ground
is good, being sand and mud. During a strong south-east
wind there is considerable surf on the beach. Steamers
usually anchor in the vicinity of a buoy about 2 miles
from shore on the edge of the 4 fathom line. Gunboats
could anchor a mile from the landing place opposite the
town. r i here is safe anchorage for a large number of
ships. No fixed moorings are provided.
A fixed white light is hoisted at night above the Consulate,
it is visible about 8 miles at sea. The steamers of the
13. 1 Company call in here once a week on their way up and
down the Gulf, and steamers belonging to other companies
call in nt irregular intervals.
The coast is a very gentle shelving sand hence the
distance of the anchorage. The beach is of sand and mud,
and very soft, without cliffs. At low tide the shore is so
flat that small boats take the ground 100 yards from the
water’s edge.
Tides and currents are not strong enough to interfere
with boats or landing. During rough weather, rollers or
surf -are liable to capsize a boat, or broach it to. If landing
3 miles west of the town caution is necessary as the tidal
streams of the Clarence Strait set up strong currents.
The foreshore dries up, at spring tides, for 200 yards
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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)
- Arrangement
Includes a list of contents on folio 4; and an index on folios 67-73.
- Physical characteristics
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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence