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Publications, Newspaper Cuttings, Photographs and Correspondence about Persia and the Persian Gulf [365v] (735/879)
The record is made up of 1 file (436 folios). It was created in 14 Oct 1891-Sep 1911. It was written in English, French and German. 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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200
REVIEWS.
Perigny ascended the Rio Hondo, which for the distance of about 60 miles forms the
boundary between British Honduras and Yucatan ; then, leaving the river, he rode 18
leagues through the forest to the village of Icaiche. Up to the last few years this has
been a disturbed district and almost closed to travellers. The Indians of Chan Santa
Cruz to the north were for many years hostile to the Mexican Government, and
maintained a state of independence. Icaiche and some of the neighbouring villages
were refuges for all the runaway rascals from Guatemala, Belize, and Yucatan.
Now the whole district has come under the government of Mexico, and beyond the
usual difficulty of engaging labourers to work at clearing ruins in the forest, M. de
Perigny met with no impediment to his explorations. Between Icaiche and the Rio
Hondo M. de Perigny located four groups of ruins, and a fourth group which he calls
Rio Beque about 20 miles to the north of Icaiche. This last group of ruins appears
to have been the most important of those discovered, and contains one building
differing considerably in form from others that the traveller had seen in Peten or
Yucatan. The principal facade faces the north and measures 40 metres in length,
and is flanked at each extremity by a tower built of stones and earth cased in masonry.
The angles of these towers are rounded, and in each tower a narrow stairway gives
access to two interior chambers. Four photographs of this building are given.
It is very remarkable that, although the ruins visited are within 50 or 60 miles
of Tikal, and about the same distance from the ruins at Naranjo and Yaxha, lately
described by Mr. Teobert Maier, all of which abound with carved stelae and other
sculpture, M. de Perigny was not successful in discovering any sculptured stelae or
inscriptions. Such monuments are certainly rare among the ruins of Yucatan, and
it maybe that the Rio Hondo marks a portion of the boundary between the Yucatec
and Central American culture. However, M. de Perigny notes that all the ruins he
visited on this journey are in an advanced state of decay, and it is possible that
sculptured stelaj still lie hidden under the great masses of fallen stone. Throughout
the route traversed were found the remains of walls, and mounds of stones, probably
the foundations of ancient buildings, proofs of the former existence of a large
population, and, although M. de Perigny must be condoled with on his ill luck in
not discovering any carved monuments or inscriptions, his journey through this
little-known country is none the less valuable as helping to close the void between
the interesting ruins in Guatemala and the great ruined towns of northern Yucatan.
A. P. M.
South American Travels.
* Reisestudien aus dem Westlichen Siid-Amerika.’ Von Therese Prinzessin von
Bayern. Berlin: D. Reimer. 1908. 20m.
An elaborate and painstaking account of the carefully planned and well-equipped
expedition led by the princess in 1898, up and down the Columbian Magdalena and
along the Pacific coast of South America. Short side trips were taken to the Andes,
and a longer excursion from Arequipa up to La Paz, and therefrom through “ punas ”
and deserts down again to Antofagasta. The return journey took her from Valparaiso
to Buenos Ayres through the Andes and pampas. The scientific results have already
appeared in a number of special papers.
Though the princess broke no fresh ground, she collected quite a wealth of
biological and human documents for the state museum of Bavaria, and took extra
ordinarily copious notes, the full detail of which is given here. Generalities about
Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentine are well condensed each in a
separate chapter. There is also a valuable collection of photographs and sketches.
The work is handsomely produced, and contains, beside elaborate maps, catalogues of
all the materials collected and a copious bibliography.
M. H.
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The file contains miscellaneous papers, mostly printed publications, newspaper cuttings and photographs, relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
It includes a few items of correspondence, including letters to George Nathaniel Curzon relating to the Trans-Persian Railway, and Russian influence in Persia, and handwritten notes by Curzon on topics including arms traffic in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the Trans-Persian Railway.
The file also includes copies of printed publications relating to Persia, including: three pamphlets on Lake Urmi [Urmia] in North West Persia, by Robert Theodore Günther (two of which include duplicate copies of a map of the Lake Urmi Basin, Mss Eur F111/356, f 132); a paper entitled ‘Paper to be read before the Indian Section of the Society of Arts, Thursday, May 8th. 1902. The Past and Present Connection of England with the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . By Thomas Jewell Bennett.’; and an article from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Volume 5, Number 8, August 1909) entitled ‘Some Persian Folk-lore Stories concerning the Ruins of Persepolis.’ by Captain Charles Monk Gibbon, Royal Irish Fusiliers.
It includes in addition: two issues of a French pamphlet entitled Bulletin de l’Union des Associations des Anciens Élèves des Écoles Supérieures de Commerce (Reconnues par l’État) [ Bulletin of the Union of Associations of Former Students of the Higher Schools of Commerce (Recognized by the State) ], dated 20 January and 5 February 1904, which include articles by M E Peschier on the Baghdad Railway; and a German bookseller’s catalogue entitled Indica et Iranica Teilweise aus der Bibliothek von Viggo Fausböll Professor der indischen Sprachen an der Universität Kopenhagen I. Literaturen und Sprachen Indiens und Persiens [ Indica et Iranica Partially from the Library of Viggo Fausboll Professor of Indian Languages at the University of Copenhagen. Literatures and Languages of India and Persia ].
Folios to 250 to 370 of the file mostly consist of cuttings relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from various newspapers and other publications, including: The Times , The Morning Post , The Spectator , The Civil & Military Gazette , The Times of India , and The Standard . The cuttings concern topics including: British interests in Persia; the Russian influence in Persia, including the Persian Government signing a concession to a Russian company for the construction of a cart-road between Kazvin, Resht and Enzeli, and Anglo-Russian rivalry in trade with Persia; the cholera epidemic in Persia; and the events of the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11.
Folios 386 to 433 of the file consist of black and white photographs, including:
- Three photographs in an envelope entitled ‘Photos of Koweit [Kuwait]’, of Mabarak-bin-Subah [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ], Shaikh of Kuwait, and his youngest son Naser (f 387), the foreshore of Koweit (f 388), and the residence of the Shaikh of Koweit (f 389)
- Two photographs in an envelope labelled ‘Photos by Parkin (assistant at Brit[ish] Resid[ency] Bushire / of Koweit Muscat. Bushire. Sent to me by Col[onel] Meade. April 1899.’ of Seyed Faisal bin Turki [Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of Muscat (f 392), and Seyed Mohamed bin Turki, half-brother of the Sultan of Muscat (f 391)
- A set of photographs of the following: the South entrance of the Governor’s house, Bushire (f 395); the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and British Consulate, Muskat [Muscat] (f 396); the watch tower on Samana (f 397); Major and Mrs Leigh in Camp in Samana (f 398); Major and Mrs Leigh and Lieutenant Creagh [possibly George Washington Brazier-Creagh] at Mastar [Māster, Persia] (f 399); entrance of Muskat Harbour (f 400); town of Muskat from the harbour (f 401); Fort Jelali, Muskat (f 402); Fort Mahrani [Fort Al-Mirani], Muscat (f 403); and the British Vice Consulate at Mohamerah [Khorramshahr] (f 404)
- Printed images of the following: the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Manamah, Bahrain (f 407); Shaikh Khaz’ al of Muhammareh [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] (f 408); the view at Haz’-adh-Dhabi, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (f 409); salt rocks on Qishm Island near Namakdan (f 410); the Hindiyan River near Zaidan (f 411); a parade of British and Persian troops at Rishehr, 1905 (f 412); two views of Muhammerah Town (f 413); a creek near Basrah [Basra] from the Shatt-al-’Arab (f 414); a crowd at Ras-al-Khaimah (f 415); the Foreshore, Kuwait (f 416); the Hanaini well, Bahrain Island (f 417); ancient tumuli, Bahrain Island (f 418); Kumzar (f 419); Lingeh (f 420); the Tis Valley in Persian Makran (f 421); the West end of Masqat Town [Muscat Town] with the Sultan’s Palace and Fort Mirani (f 422); and the Eastern end of Masqat Town, with the British Consulate on the left, and the Sultan’s palace on the right (f 423).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (436 folios)
- Arrangement
The folios from folio 4 to folio 251 are arranged in rough chronological order. The newspaper cuttings are mostly between folios 249 and 359, and the photographs are at the rear of the file (folios 386 to 433).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 436; 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.
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- Publications, Newspaper Cuttings, Photographs and Correspondence about Persia and the Persian Gulf
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