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'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [613] (657/733)
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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GULF OF PERSIA.
613
Remarks. — ihe centre of the Gulf, off the Pearl Bank, is clear of
danger, with
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
, over a bottom of mud, from twenty at the upper
part to forty and fifty fathoms through most of the other parts, to eighty
fathoms ofl the Quoins, At the entrance the Gulf abounds with all
kinds of fish, which are cheaply purchased from the boats.
INHABITANTS OF THE GULF OF PERSIA.
The inhabitants on the Arabian side are Mahomedans of all sects,
Wahabee, Soonee, and Sheea. In most of the ports are to be found
Banian
Merchant of Indian extraction.
merchants, also Jews and Armenians. The trade of the Gulf is
extensive, and most of those maritime places which have not the means
or a demand among themselves are the carriers for the other places.
Some of the finest of the Buggalows trading from the Gtilf to India
belong to these places. At the time the pirates were in power, there
were not more than one hundred and twenty Buggalows and Buteels
belonging to the Gulf of above seventy tons; three-fourths of these be
longed to Grane, Bahrein, and Muskat.
Since a regular force has been kept in the Gulf to keep the pirates
down, they have increased to near six hundred ; and the trade with India,
particularly with the Malabar Coast and Bombay, has become very
considerable. The Arabs take off every year a large part of the rice
grown in Malabar, and large quantities of timber, for which they pay
in dates or hard cash, but mostly the latter. I may add here, that though
the pirates are kept down, they are not suppressed, and if opportunity
offered they would soon be up again. They possess some of the finest
vessels in the Gulf. One thing—the surveys of the Gulf will in future
times prevent their escape among the islands and shoals, as they did
before, while the Officers of the Indian Navy, from constantly navigat
ing the Gulf, will be able to follow them wherever they go.
WINDS AND CURRENTS.
At the head of the Gulf, during the months of November, December,
January, and part of March, the winds blow alternately from north-west
and south-east, but with no regularity, as during those periods when it
blows hard the wind will be in opposite directions within a very short
distance. During these strong breezes, which seldom last beyond four
days in the north-westers, the air is clear, cold, and bracing ; in the
south-easters the air is generally moist, and rainy. When the winds are
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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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- 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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