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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [239] (281/733)
The record is made up of 1 volume (364 folios). It was created in 1856. 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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MtJSKAT, 239
almost nothing: woollen cloths, useful to Arabs only, for tents and
cloaks ; some cottons of a good quality, used only by Arabs ; silks, also
used by Arabs ; leather, but of poor quality ; iron, chiefly arms. Oman
cannot be said to have an export trade in manufactures ; most things
now required are imported. Yet in Oman, formerly, there existed
considerable manufactories of silks, and mines were also worked in
various places. I have seen old mines in several places, but the Arabs
had not even any tradition regarding them. I always got the constant
answer of the Arab, touching anything of which he knows nothing (and
indeed they do know but very little, and care to know but little),—
Allah Aeem hadha row shugne fd Aeiom ul Kaffar! (God knows;
it was some affair or business in the days of the unbelievers !)
routes, a man may take the one which pleases him, at
one time of the year one way, at another some
Routes, and Means of i r i . ^
Communication by Land OLller route, as he can find water. Oman can be
and Water. approached in many places, and entered from
the sea ; from the interior, from the Hadlur al
Maut, the Hajaz, or from Nujd ; and the Imaum's African dominions
aie all open to the sea. The natural resources are incalculable : the
sugar grown in Zanzibar is as fine as any in the world, but with Arabs
the natural resources of a country will never be developed. The cloves
answer the Arab well, because they grow with so little care ; -the
Arabs here are all growing rich from the sale of their cloves.
X. The climate of Oman in the interior is said to be good, but the
^ Climate, and Average ^o ^-St is very unhealthy for four months in the
meter! 0f ^ Thermo " y ear : the heat is truly terrible in April, May,
June, and July. Jn and about Muskat is
supposed to be the greatest heat in the world.
fn the Imaum's African possessions, the climate is certainly un
healthy for Europeans, on the coast, and in the adjacent islands. The
highlands in the interior are supposed to be healthy, but they have not as
yet been tried. The range of the thermometer in Oman I do not know
| 101 9 qo the 0f 11 in Africa ' exce l )t at Zanzibar, where it is from 71°
XT. What it may be in Arabia I know not, but little rain falls. On
Average Annual Fall of ^ 0f AfriCa lhe fal1 of rain is ver y great,
Rain. ^ we have no means of ascertaining it: at
Zanzibar it is about from 84 to 100 inches.
XT I- I do not know ; there is no means of estimating it, and I and
Estimated Population. others have often tried to do so; we have not
sufficient knowledge of the country, and to ^et
inlonnation from the Arabs is out of the question.
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The volume is Selections from the records of the Bombay Government , compiled and edited by Robert Hughes Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, New Series: 24 (Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, 1856).
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- 1 volume (364 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an abstract of contents on p. iii, a detailed list of contents on pp. vii-xx, an alphabetical index on pp. xxi-xxvii, and a list of maps etc on p. xviii.
- Physical characteristics
Pagination: two separate pagination sequences are present in the volume. The first sequence (pp. i-xviii) commences at the first page and terminates at the list of maps (p. xviii). A second pagination sequence then takes over (pp. 1-688), commencing at the title page and terminating at the final page. Both these pagination sequences are printed, with additions in pencil, and the numbers are found at the top (left, right or centre) of each page.
The fold-outs in this volume were not paginated by the publisher. As a result, these have been foliated using the nearest page number. For example, the fold-out attached to p.51 has been numbered as 51A.
Pagination anomalies: pp. 15, 15A; 45, 45A; 49, 49A; 51, 51A; 531, 531A.
The following pages need to be folded out to be read: 15A, 45A, 51A, 327-328, 531A.
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- 'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:28, 1:48, 50:688, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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