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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [‎33v] (71/168)

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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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58
Honan.
immediately behind the beacon on the spit. This is visible
about 3 miles out to sea.
The local administration is in the hands of the Sheikh
who lives at the village of Hen jam. The only trace of
Persian sovereignty is an office of the Persian Customs
Department in charge of a subordinate official. This office,
which is situated near the Telegraph buildings, was sent
there only when the coal depot was established in 1913.
Hormuz .—Tlie northern point of Hormuz, the site of the
celebrated ancient city, is 11 miles east south-east of Bandar
Abbas, and 4 miles south of the nearest part of the
mainland. The passage between is navigable for vessels
of moderate draught about its centre. Except at the
northern and southern extremities, the island has a broad
belt of shoal water. The hills average over 300 feet and
one peak reaches 690 feet. All ravines and valleys in the
interior are incrusted with salt, and the whole surface is
almost entirely barren. Copper, specular iron ore, red
oxide of iron, and salt exist on the island, but only the
last two are worked. Before the Great War the red oxide
ore was exported in large quantities to Europe, but since
that date only one shipment (in 1919) has taken place. The
exploitation of minerals in Hormuz, as well as in the other
islands of the Gulf, is in charge of the Customs Department.
The quantity of sweet water available from the reservoir
is strictly limited; practically nothing else is obtainable.
The only inhabited place is the village situated on the neck
of the northern promontory between the Portuguese fort
at its extremity and the ruins of the ancient city landwards.
It consists of about 150 stone huts and 400 inhabitants of
mixed Persian and Arab descent, whose staple industry is
fishing. The village is practically deserted during the
summer months, when the majority of the inhabitants go
off to Mlnab. When the mines are worked several hundred
coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. are imported from Qishm, Minab and Bashakard,
but return to their homes during the summer months. There
are 6 snmbuqs of 15-20 tons burthen, as well as a dozen or
so small fishing boats.
The anchorage is half a mile to the east of the old fort
in 4 to 5 fathoms. A few reservoirs to store rain watel

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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
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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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