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'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.' [417] (578/612)
The record is made up of 1 volume (435 pages). It was created in 1871. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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POSTSCRIPT. 4|^
the removal of the trade to Kfs, an island in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, the
place has been abandoned and gradually destroyed." The same
fate has befallen el-Kais, the population of which, in 1835, was
estimated at three hundred souls, belonging to the Al-'Aly tribe
occupying three villages. On the north are the remains of a
considerable town, " said to have been built by the Portuguese "
who by the way, get the credit for all the ancient architecture
on the shores of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. 1
The question where Siraf, Polo's was situated is easily
isposed of. Polo describes it as being two hundred miles
farther from "Calatu" than Hormu., "between north-west and
west. Almost precisely at that distance from Hormuz, by sen
and in the given direction, there is a place called "Cheroo" in
our modern English charts. According to Dean Vincent,' the
name is spelt "Sherouw or Sherouve," in the old Dutch charts,
« m 5' Visscller ' 9 ma P (Amsterdam, 1651), I find it written
ira . t possesses a harbour far superior to that of the island
0 el-Kais,frora which it is separated only by a few miles.—"Cheroo "
writes Captain Bracks,I.N., "is situated at the bottom of a bay,
ormed by the Bds or Cape of the same name. It contains about one
undred and fifty men of the Abadaly tribe; the shaikh resides
at another village inland....It is the best anchorage in a north
wester in the Gulf, and affords tolerable supplies, and water. It
las a few trading-boats." 3 Another confirmatory coincidence is
the existence of the small island of Hindraby a short distance to
the southward of Cheroo. This I take to be the Mbeth (or
ameth) which el-Idrisy places in its vicinity" Among the
is ands of that sea [Fars] are the island of Kharak, the island of
abeth, which is opposite to and near Siraf and the Cape es-
fn, and the island of Awal."^ The cape, as will be seen by
a glance at the chart, is a remarkable feature in that part of the
coast.
Corroborative proof might be adduced from the relative
1 See Bomhay Government Selections, No. xxiv. pp. 20, 45 48 59fi for
several accounts of el-Kais or Kenn. ' '
- Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients, vol. i. p. 381.
! Bombay Government Selections, No. xxiv. p. 596.
4 Geographic d'Edrisi, ed. Jaubert. torn. i. p. 364
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History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay.
Author: Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn Ruzayq
Publication details: London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society
Physical Description: initial roman numeral pagination (i-cxxviii); with map.
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- 'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:20, 1:128, 1:436, 1:8, iv-r:vi-v, back-i
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- Ḥamīd ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ruzayq xx Salil ibn Razik
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