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'Military report on the Aden Protectorate' [21v] (47/332)
The record is made up of 1 volume (164 folios). It was created in 1915. 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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28
The most tertile tracts are the western hiily region bor
dering on Turkish territorv, a description of which will be found
below, under the heading "Tribal Areas", and that portion of the
Hadhramaut lying south of the sixteenth parallel of latitude
and east of the 47th degree of east longitude. Singularly fer
tile and self-sufficing, the settled districts of Hadhramaut are
so situated geographically as to hang closely- together, and to
be isolated as a whole from the rest of the peninsula ; while at
the same time they lie within reach of ports which are in con
stant eommunieation with mid-eastern Africa and India. The
main fertile valley of the region, carrying the drainage of
the south-eastward slope of the highlands of Southwest Arabia,
lies for a long distance (about five hundred miles) l almost paral
lel to the coast, but screened by a high desert plateau. The
fact that its waters are'absorbed in the irrigation of this long de
pression leaves the last hundred miles of the main wddl a de
sert, and removes the oasis tracts from direct contact with
the sea.
To the north stretches unbroken the most terrible waste of
eand-dunes in Arabia (Alaqaf), never, to our knowledge, crossed;
and farther east is the firmer, but not less, waterless, desert of'
Mahra.
Boundary.
Tbe boundary line begins at Husn Murad, near Perim, and;
extends over 200 miles to a.point on the river Bana, near Ka'taba,
From here onwards a line drawn north-east from Lakmat-us-
Shub, a village in Amiri territory, defines the dividing line of the
sphere of influence of the two powers.
On this frontier, the most important section is that comprised
by the Amir of DhUla's, the Haushabl, and a portion of the
Subaihi territories. Through these districts pass the main
trade routes from Turkish Yemen, and they are also the only-
routes which could be utilised by a force advancing into British
territory from Turkish Yemen, or the converse. These main
lines of advance may be brought under three heads, and it is
proposed to consider shortly how the frontier, as at present
estabhshed, affects each—■
[a) Through the Dhala valley from northern Yemen (San'a
Yerim, etc.).
\
Through the Tiban valley from, Ta'izz and Ma via.
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Military report on Aden Protectorate by the General Staff India, dated 1915, and printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla. The report's chapters cover:
History, including a general summary of the history the region from 529 A.D. to 1915; histories of the individual tribes ('Abdalī, 'Akrabī, 'Alawī, Amīr , 'Audalī, Upper Aulakī, Lower Aulakī, Fadhlī, Haushabi, Ka'atī, Kathīrī, Mahrī, Subaihī, Wahīdī, Upper Yafaī, Lower Yafaī); and the history of the Soqotra.
Geography, including a general description of the area, its mountains and rivers, and descriptions of Aden, Perim and Soqotra; and descriptions of the individual tribal areas, giving their boundaries, distances from towns and villages, and locations of fresh water; Climate and Health, including general information on the climate of the region and specific illnesses such as Malaria, information on the tribal area of Amīrī; tables showing average temperatures, sickness and death rates for European Soldiers in 1903, and observations on veterinary health.
Population, including a general description, the census for the Aden Protectorate taken in 1911, the population of Soqotra island, the populations of the various tribes, and statements showing the Subaīhī tribes in proximity to the Turkish border.
Resouces, including agriculture, supplies, commerce, industries, camels, horses, donkeys, cattle, sheep and goats, chickens and eggs, woods and trees; the resources of the Aden garrison; resources on the island of Perim; resources on the island of Soqotra; the resources of the various tribes, and a statement of the purchases made at Dhāla in summer 1903.
Military, including a general summary, armaments, fighting qualities and method of fighting; arrangements on the island of Perim and of the Soqotra people; approximate fighting strength of the principal tribes in the Aden protectorate; information concerning the town and Turkish frontier post at Ka'taba, including diagrams of the fort, a landscape sketch, and a sketch showing the position of Ka'taba with reference to Aden and British Territory.
Maritime, including the harbours and ancorages at Perim; Ras-ul-Ara; Bandar 'Imran; Bandar Fuqum; Khor Bīr Ahmad; Aden Harbour; Shuqra; Māqatīn-us-Saghīr; 'Irka' Ghubbat-ul-'Ain; Bālahāf; Bir 'Alī (Bandar Husn Ghurāb Shallow vessel with a projecting bow. ); Bandar Burūm; Mukalla; Shehr; Sharma Bay; Saihut; Qishn; Soqotra all with latitude and longitude co-ordinates given.
Administration, including a general summary of the various systems in use throughout the territory, the administration of the Aden Settlement, including Perim; and summaries of the administrative set-up of each of the Arab tribes
Communications, including details of the routes leading North and Northwest to the Turkish Frontier; Routes leading to the North; Routes in the Eastern portion of the protectorate; Amir of Dhāla's territory; Soqotra; Telegraphs and Signalling; Submarine cables; Wireless; Perim submarine cables
Appendix A is a list of the tribes, their rulers, stipends and salutes, Appendix B is a glossary of Arabic Terms, Appendix C is a list of tribal areas, their population and fighting force, and Appendix D is a bibliography.
At the rear of the volume is a pocket containing one map: Hunter's map of Arabia, which appears to have been added to the volume at a later date.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (164 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a detailed table of contents on folios 5-7, a comprehensive index to the report on folios 139-159, and a pocket containing the maps at the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence consists of pencil numbers, enclosed in a circle, located in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The sequence commences on the front cover, with number 1, and ends on the last of the two maps which are inserted at the back of the volume, with number 164.
The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence which uses roman numerals i-vii for the table of contents; commences at 1 on the first page of the report and concludes with 298 on the last page of the index.
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