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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [31v] (67/168)
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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54
Lift.
being awash at low water. There are rough steps at the
end and on both sides, but the whole pier is dilapidated
and would need repairing before being of use. There are
seven roofed-in reservoirs in good repair; average dimen
sions are 45 feet by 12 feet by 10 feet. Three are Govern
ment property and four belong to the inhabitants. There
are 8 wells containing sweet water. These wells have only
a few feet of water, but quickly refill after being emptied,
and the quantity varies very little even in years of drought.
Four miles east of Basidu at Nakhlistan there are some
good wells and a date grove. There were never any per
manent defences, and since 1913 there has been no British
guard. The wireless station, workshops, etc., were also
withdrawn when the station was closed down. The station
is now unoccupied save for a few families of fishermen and
herdsmen, about 50 in number, and an Arab caretaker who
looks after the flagstaff and the European cemetery.
R, I. M. S. Nearchus, the Lights and Buoys vessel of the
Gulf, periodically visits the station to carry out any
necessary repairs to the flagstaff.
Basidu-i-Kuchak, or Persian Basidii is the name now
frequently given to Hujar, a village of some 60 huts and
150 inhabitants situated about 2 miles from the point to the
east of Clarence Strait.
The inhabitants of Basidu possess a few cattle and
'donkeys, and some 200 sheep and goats. No supplies are
obtainable.
The anchorage here extends parallel to the shore on the
north side of the point, and consists of a belt i mile
broad, and 1 mile from the shore. The depth is 5 to 7
fathoms, and the^ clay bottom forms good holding ground.
Landing is inconvenient in a swell, owing to the rocky
nature of the coast, and a mud flat uncovered at low
Water.
Laft is a village on the west side of the salient from the
north coast of the island, of which the extremity is Laft
point. It is built at the foot of a hill 200 feet high, and
the approach is by a narrow creek in which native craft lie.
The village consists of 250 houses of Arabs and Persian*,
engaged in fishing, boat building, and cutting fire-wood
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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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