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'Military report on the Aden Protectorate' [80v] (165/332)
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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146
both sides by rocky and barren hills, Is intersected by nume*
rous dry nullahs and covered with sparse vegetation afford-
ino- grazing for the goats and sheep of the Shubaikl. Its aver
age width"is about 2 miles. With the exception of Hisi Ah
mad, a deep well with a very scanty supply of brackish water,
there is no water between Ghail I'unf in the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ka'luli
and Ghail Kulaita in
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hurrim, a distance of about 8 miles.
There is no cultivation nor are any supplies procurable on the
spot.
[Turbat -Abul-Asrar or Bani Surer, are a smull commu
nity of Saiyids inhabiting a fertile little valley to the north
east of the Hawab range. The shrine there is of some local
renown. There is a small village with three wells of good water
and a certain amount of cultivation, jowari and date-palm.
It is as yet undecided whether this settlement will be included
on the Turkish or the British side of the border though the
land was originally Subailu. The valley adjoins that of Mud-
ariba and fair tracks lead from it to the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Bitan, to Umm
Albia, and to the Haiki valley.]
The Atijl. —The Atifi proper do not appear to number more
than about 50 men, although their tribal limits extend south
of the Buraimi from near Umm Fajra to Hawairib and the little
group of Turan villages, their only fixed habitation, and along the
coast from the Barhaimi border to Kuddam, north of Dubab. With
the exception of a well about a mile east of Nubat Sayyaila
(Sayyaila well is dry ) and a little cultivation near it, the whole
of the southern portion is desert. Turan itself contains three
fair wells and a stream, Ghail Hazaruf, not far up the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Turan, and there is some cultivation near the villages. The
Busaili, a small clan of Saiyids, live with the Atifi, at Turan.
There are several clans living in Atifi territory to the north
and along the coast.
Of these the Mahwall or Hu are nomads who inhabit
the neighbourhood of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hurrim and the Sanfa range
to the north-west. There is no cultivation in the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hurrim
except at Umm Nabia but water is plentiful at intervals in
spring pools, the most abundant being at Ghail Kulaita, where
the track from Ras-ul-Ara to Karaba in the Haiki country,
Strikes the Hurrim. 300 men and 400 camels were watered
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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.
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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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