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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [17] (54/733)
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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PIRATE PORTS. ] 7
AAA m 1 Sale ' Their pearl fisher y is accounted to produce yearly
0,000 lomans. They do not commit, piracies on the high seas, but
take advantage of the approach of the smallest boats to their coast, and
seize them ; for which reason their conduct is not so openly stigmatized
as that of the other inhabitants of Sir. They have small date groves
dispersed among their sand hillocks, which yield a scanty supply of
ruit, and amidst which they live during the summer, until their crop
is consumed. In this season, the water is very brackish, and in the
wintry months the shepherds ascend Lahsa and Qutar, to find
pasture for their cattle. They can furnish twenty thousand excellent
musketeers.
Huailah.
Huailah lies to the southward, by one day's journey, of Khor Hassan,
and is a small station of Baddoos. Its maritime population exists by
pearl fishing, while that of the interior follows the occupation of hus
bandmen, and are less impoverished than their clansmen on the sea
coast.
Zukhirah.
The port Zukhirah, under Shaikh Nasir bin Salmin, in common
with the other ports of the Arabian shore, fish for pearls.
Khor Hassan.
From hence three days' journey lies Khor Hassan, the former retreat
of Shaikh Rahmah bin Jabir Yalahimi, a tribe derived from Nujd. The
town is composed of 400 houses, among which his own is conpicuous,
from its height, and from the upper story bearing the appearance of a
fortification, pierced with loopholes for the convenience of musketry.
Towers, too, are erected for its defence. The port within has two fathoms
at high-water, and two or three feet at low-water. Ships cannot approach
nearer than two or three miles, but the large Native boats come within
musket-shot of the shore. The anchorage is rocky, and exposed to the
north-west wind, which excites a tremendous swell. Within the space
of twelve hours, five thousand Baddoos may be marched down from
the interior to defend the coast.
Zobara.
Near this is the port of Zobara, the inhabitants of which are allied to
those of Khor Hassan ; it has a town of 400 houses.
Ogair.
Ogair lies opposite to the island of Bahrein, and may be esteemed
the chief seaport of the Wahahees. A custom house, at which all
imports direct for Lahsa and Dareyah are landed, is established at this
place, as their conveyance to their several destinations by land is thus
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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.
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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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