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'Persia 1888. From Rishir to Bunder Abbas.' [‎29v] (63/69)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (32 folios). It was created in 6 April 1888- 8 Jan 1894. 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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ROUTE No. —contd.
Distances.
Number and names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
River and
streams.
Remarks.
M. F.
M. F.
The village of Sam is open to the sea-bveeze. Its houses glancing white through the
screen of trees, are apparently constructed of stone and lime.
The village seems to be the garden of Bunder Abbas, and to be used by the well-to-do
inhabitants o£°the latter place as a summer or suburban residence.
Supplies ... Plentiful, being readily procurable from the neighbouring town of
Bunder Abbas.
Water ... By native report, plentiful.
Fuel ... Plentiful.
Cultivation ... Poor.
Grazing ... Very scanty.
Camping-ground. Good.
The ground on either side of the road is sandy with a vpry slight sprinkling of grass.
The broken ground, and upheavals of gravelly limestone strata, forming low hills, are now
distant to north about half-a*mile.
Four furlongs after leaving the date groves of Saru, the road traverses a track of plough-
land, and at 15 miles passes the cistern called “ Bunder,” in good repair, and full of water,
repair
cistern, which appears however to be m a
At 15| miles we enter the ancient, but now ruined walls of Bunder Abbas.
ed land, and at 10 miles passes
Two hundred yards further on there is another
ruined state.
^ — _ .
A full description of the town is to be found in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot, and the Gazet
teer of Persia,
Altitude above sea, 30 feet.
Supplies ... Plentiful.
Water ... Plentiful from cisterns.
Fuel ... Plentiful.
Cultivation ... Excepting dates, little, and what there is very poor owing to the
sandy soil.
Grazing ... Scanty.
Camping-grounds. Yery good.
G. C. Press, Simla.—No. 121 Q. M. G. I. B.-5-2-94.

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This volume is a report by Samuel Butcher, a superintendent and clerk in the Indo-European Telegraph Department, documenting the route from Rishir, a village near Bushire, to Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The report describes the different cities that Butcher went through on his way to Bunder Abbas. Each description contains information on supplies, water, fuel, cultivation, grazing and camping grounds.

Folio 2 of the volume contains a dedication from the author, Samuel Butcher, to George Curzon. The report was the property of Curzon.

The volume contains five lithographic A lithograph is an image reproduced from a printing plate whose image areas attract ink and non-image areas repel it. prints of drawings (folios 13, 16, 19, 21, and 25) and one map in a pocket at the end of the book (f 33).

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1 volume (32 folios)
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The papers in the volume proceed in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates on a map with 33, 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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