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'Handbook of Yemen' [17r] (38/190)
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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— 21 —
spur from the Maritime Range almost to the coast alters
conditions immediately behind Mokhah and causes the latter,
though a coast town, to have abundant (though brackish)
water and gardens. The well-water along the littoral strip,
from end to end, is bad.
The urban settlements in the Tihamah are the following :
(1) Hodeidah, the most populous Yemen town,
is situated on the Red Sea in latitude 14° 47 north. In
1897 the population was estimated at over 50,000 ; but
no census has been ever taken. Bury, 1913, estimated it
at 42,000, including a British Indian community of about
1,000 and 100 Europeans, mostly Greeks, who have shops.
Somalis, Abyssinians, and Arabs from the Hadhramaut
are very numerous ; but Arabs from the inland highlands
are surprisingly few. Hodeidah has no cjuay or wharfage,
nor any of the conveniences of a trading port; the old
primitive wooden pier has fallen into decay. There is a small
harbour, available only for the smallest craft, with two
projecting moles of stone (each bearing a light about fifteen
feet high at the end) and a breakwater with two entrances,
of which the northern is slightly the easier of access. After
the moles were constructed, it was found that the water
was not deep enough .to allow loaded lighters to come
alongside ; so the stevedores have to wade, and merchandise
is dumped on the beach. Large vessels anchor about two
and a half miles off in four fathoms; merchandise is
transferred in native craft. Landing is difficult, and, at
times, impossible, with the wind between south and west.
The Ottoman Government conceived a scheme for con
structing a harbour for Hodeidah, about ten miles to the
north, where there is a deep natural inlet protected by a
long spit known as Ras el-Katib. This was part of a larger
undertaking known as the Hodeidah-San a Railway. The
harbour was to be linked up with Hodeidah by a metre-
gauge line along the spit. Construction commenced at
Ras el-Katib, and about five miles of track were laid;
but no adequate means for landing and handling material
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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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- '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
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