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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [568] (612/733)
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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568
NAVIGATION OF THE
the people entirely neglect it. The island also produces citrons, pome
granates, mulberries, dates, figs, melons, and other fruits ; also several
kinds of vegetables. Cattle and poultry are also procurable, but rather
dear, being brought from other places. The cloth bazar is pretty well
supplied.
The islands of Muharag, Arad, and Samahoy are twelve miles round,
and only separated at very high spring tides. They have a few date
plantations on them, and about seven thousand five hundred inha
bitants. There is very little water on them, most of that used being
brought from Bahrein. There are two forts or Ghurees, one at
Muharag, the other at Arad. Munama town is in lat. 26° 13' 50" N.,
long. 50° 36' 50" E.
The Shaikh has five war Buggalows, but can fit out fifteen or twenty.
One of these is of about four hundred tons, and mounts twenty-two
guns. The fortifications are a Ghuree at Muharag, on a sandy point,
containing six or eight guns, and commanding the channel; two others,
one at Arad and another at Samahoy, and a ruinous wall round the
town. Oh Bahrein are Raffar, seven miles from Munama, and about
fifty other Ghurees, with a number of towers in different parts; but
their best defences are those supplied by nature in the reefs that sur
round the islands, as five hundred determined men might oppose the
landing of as many thousands.
TRADE OF BAHREIN.
The following is an account of the exports and imports of Bahrein,
in the year 1824, as stated by the Company's
Broker
Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation.
and the Shaikh's
Vizier ;—
Exports.
German Crowns.
Pearls to India 1,200,000
Ditto to Arabia, Turkey,
and Bussora 300,000
Ditto to Persia 100,000
v arious Articles, to India,Sind^c.
Dry dates 15,000
Tortoise-shell
Bahrein canvas 3,000
Shark-fins 2,000
To Pers ia.
Bahrein canvas 3 000
Mats . .
1,200
Imports.
From Hindoostan.
German Crowns.
Rice from Mangalore, 60,000
Morahs 65,000
Rice from Bengal, 8,000 bags. 24,000
Sugar, 600 bags 12,000
Sugarcandy, 500 tubs 5,000
Pepper, 400 morahs 10,000
Solder or block tin 2,000
Iron, 5,000 bars 10,000
Lead, 2,000 pigs 2,400
Steel, 100 tubs 1,000
Plank, and ship timber .... 17,000
c oir 5,000
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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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