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'Handbook of Yemen' [4r] (12/190)
The record is made up of 1 volume (91 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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PREFATORY NOTE.
This Handbook has been compiled by Major K. Corn-
wallis and Lieut.-Commander D. G. Hogarth, R.N.V.R.,
from information obtained in Cairo (especially about Tribes
and Personalities), and from material prepared for the
Arabia Handbook, issued by the Admiralty War Staff,
Intelligence Division. The latter material (Chapters I-VII,
XI, and XII) has been supplemented by native information,
and, to some extent, recast. For some of the Tihamah tribes
and two Route Reports, the compilers are indebted to notes,
supplied from Aden by Col. R.A. Wauchope, R.E. In a
subsequent edition or supplement it is hoped to add to the
Route Reports schedules and descriptions of more cross
roads in the interior of Yemen, information about which is
now being collected in Cairo.
The outline map, published herewith, takes account of a
manuscript staff map, captured from a Turkish officer,
made prisoner in Hejaz. This covers Central Yemen be
tween north latitudes 16 0 '15 and 14 o '30, and between west
longitudes 42° and 44 o "30. From its appearance and such
tests as we have been able to apply, we conclude tlmt it is
a more reliable map than the Turkish staff maps of Yemen
previously known. It is being reproduced in Cairo. The
sketch map of Southern Yemen, issued by Aden, has also
been compared.
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- Content
The volume is Handbook of Yemen. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo , 1st edn, 15 January 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).
The handbook contains information about Yemen under the following headings:
- Area;
- Physical Character (including Relief and Climate);
- Population;
- Districts and Towns;
- Agriculture and Industries;
- Trade (including Currency, and Weights and Measures);
- Political;
- Yemen Army Corps;
- Tribal Notes;
- Personalities;
- Communications;
- Routes.
The prefatory note states that the handbook had been compiled by Major K Cornwallis and Lieutenant-Commander D G Hogarth, RNVR from information obtained in Cairo (especially about tribes and personalities) and from material prepared for the Arabia Handbook issued by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division.
The volume contains an 'Outline Map of Yemen' (f 6).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (91 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (f 5).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 93 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages within the volume.
Pagination: the volume also has an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-167 (ff 7-92).
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- Title
- 'Handbook of Yemen'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:92v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence