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'Handbook of Yemen' [19r] (42/190)
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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25
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(5) Sheikh Sa'id is important only as a telegraph station
situated on the extreme south-westerly point of Arabia, on
the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, opposite the island of Perim,
with which latter place it is connected by a short cable.
The telegraph station stands on the west side of a small
promontory and about three miles from a fort, which latter
is situated at the point at which the Anglo-Turkish frontier
between the Aden Protectorate and Yemen meets the sea.
There are but few houses; and the port consists of an inlet
running about two miles inland, fifty yards broad at the
mouth, and widening to nearly a mile. There is a good
landing-place just south of Cape (Eas) Sheikh Sa'id.
Proceeding inland from Hodeidah by the main San ! a
highway, the traveller enters the foothills at Bajil, and
after J 6bal ascends the Maritime Range itself, through the
rich Harraz district, to Menakhah. Both left and right
of him stretch other districts not less fertile and elaborately
terraced and cultivated. Jebels Milhan north, and Bur a/a
andReimah south, of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Siham, are typical Yemen coffee
hill-country of the aspect described on pages 14, 34, and
long rendered familiar by the descriptions of travellers from
Niebuhr onwards. Valleys of verdure, stepped upwards
to their heads, hills terraced from base to top and crowned
into castellated villages, succeed one another. Jebel
Reimah is reckoned the pick of this agricultural hill-country,
which thence stretches southwards with fertility diminishing
for a while to improve again in the Ta iz district.
In this maritime hill-region and the intramontane district
behind it there are numerous very large villages, and many
chains of hamlets and farms, succeeding one another so
closely as almost to rank as one long settlement. But
there are only two places of acknowledged town rank, Me
nakhah and Ta'iz,
(6) Menakhah, 7,500 feet above sea-level, on the
Hodeidah-San c a road, is about forty miles crowfly from
the latter. In addition to occupying a naturally strong
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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'
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- 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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