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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [1181] (230/688)
The record is made up of 1 volume (341 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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MAS III AH
1181
The people are Jannabah with a few Hikman intercspersed : the total number of malls
on the island is said not to exceed 200, and the permanent population is probably about
600 souls. The following are the principal settlements on both sides in order from north
to south ; there are no fixed villages in the interior.
Name.
Jidufah
Sha'inzi
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
-al-Mahi
'Amq
Haqal
Dawwah
Union Rasas
Safaij
Sur Masirah
Jairan
Kalban
Position, houses and
inhabitants.
Blidhirlyah or eastern side.
A dozen huts, in summer of
Jannabah from Sakalah and
Jibsh on the mainland ; in
winter deserted.
H hours from Jidufah ; con-
'sists of 5 to 10 huts in the
date season.
3 hours from Jidufah ; it ex
ists only in summer when
there are 6 or 7 houses of
fishermen and cattle-owners.
4 hours from Jidufah ; 6 or 7
temporary huts of herds
men.
6 or 7 temporary huts of herds
men. It is 41 hours from
Jidufah.
Khorlyah or western side.
8 miles from Jidufah. A mud
fort and 40 huts of Janna
bah, who are fishermen
and sailors.
One mud house and 30 huts
of Jannabah.
4 miles from Umm Rasas. 15
huts of Jannabah.
6 miles from Safaij. 20 huts
of Jannabah.
4 miles from Sur Masirah. 20
huts of Jannabah.
3 miles from Jairan. Only
occasionally visited by
fishermen.
Remarks.
Here the crew of the "Baron
Inverdale " were massacred
in 1904. Near the village
is a cape called Ras Half.
A few dates are grown here.
This is a valley with dates
which runs down to the sea.
There are 15 date trees here.
The largest date plantation in
the island is here.
A few dates grow and there
is water in wells close to
the surface. About 15
Badans are owned here,
some of which runs to
Batinah ports for dates
and to Aden.
Opposite Umm Rasas i? a
long sandy island covered
with mangroves and fre
quented by myriads of
wading birds. Umm Rasas
is the capital of Masirah.
The people are fishermen.
Ditto.
There are sheep here and a
few cattle.
Nil.
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Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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- 1 volume (341 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 975:1092, 1092a:1092f, 1093:1110, 1110a:1110f, 1111:1328, 1328a:1328f, 1329:1386, 1386a:1386f, 1387:1446, 1446a:1446f, 1447:1448, 1448a:1448f, 1449:1542, 1542a:1542f, 1543:1600, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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