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'Handbook of Yemen' [33r] (70/190)
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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'Ali; Hasan Rish, of El-Jiz; Samud, of A1 Musa; Hasan
Mubarak, of Um Fa'za 5 ; and Ibrahim Dhumbi, of Doreihimi.
Ta'if, on the Khor Ghulaifikah, is their chief port. They
own many sea-going dhows, and have much of the trade be
tween Aden and the important towns of Zebid and Beit
el-Faqih in their hands. Formerly Khor Ghuleifakah was
the chief port of the Yemen coffee trade ; but it has silted
up, and been superseded first by Mokhah, and more recently
by Hodeidah.
Jahbah, a clan of the northern section, occupies the north
west corner from Shurain to Doreihimi, and the Mujamilah
are at Jebel Kahmah in the north.
The
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Reimah, which rises in Jebel Doran, runs through
the Zaraniq country and irrigates a large area of fertile land,
The chief town is Beit el-Faqih {see p. 22).
The principal villages are Ta'if (Sheikh Munasar Saghir);
Shurain, (Jahbah, 'Abasi Jahbah); Doreihimi (Jahbah
and Sa'dah); El-Kahmah (Mujamilah); Mohammed Jabir,
Lawiyah (Jahbah); El-Huseiniyah (Mohammed Yahya
Fashik); El-Mahad.
The Zaraniq are estimated at 20,000 men, two-thirds
of whom belong to the Yemeniyah or southern division.
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13.—Kokhah.
A tribe near Mokhah, which fired on a ship's cutter of
H.M.S. "Lama" and killed two men late in 1915. The Sheikh
was made prisoner but disavowed complicity, and after
being takfen to Aden was released. Commerce between
Aden and the Kokhah was forbidden. The Sheikh is a
figurehead and powerless, but inimical to the Turks.
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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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