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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎131r] (266/652)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (322 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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HORMUZ (Village.)—
The only inhabited place on the island of Hormuz and the sole remaining
vestige of the once celebrated city of “ Ormuz.” The village is situated on
the neck of the northern promontory between the Portuguese fort at its
extremity and the ruins of the ancient city upon the landward side. The
place consists of about 200 houses, and the population may rise, while the
salt and oxide mines are being actively worked, to 1,200 souls, but falls
in summer to less than half that number in consequence of an annual
emigration to the mainland, especially to Minab, which the hot weather
and prospects of employment in picking dates combine to produce.
Persians predominate, many of them being natives of Bashakard and
Rudbar ; but there are also Baluchis and Arabs who have long since
forgotten to what tribe their ancestors belonged. The proportions of the
mixture are also roughly measured by the fact that about frds of the popu
lation is Shi’ah as against |rd Sunni. The inhabitants of Hormuz village
are mostly sailors, fishermen and miners ; they ares, reported to own 8 large
Mashuwas, 6 Baqarahs and 1 Ghunchah, with an aggregate burthen of 620
tons and employing 172 hands. The ordinary anchorage at Hormuz is half
a mile to the east of the Portuguese fort, where the bottom is of mud, the
depth of water from 4 to 5 fathoms. A little barley is grown on the plain
near the village ; there are hardly any date-palms. A few reservoirs
exist for the storage of rain-water and there are some wells yielding water
which is slightly brackish. A Qadamgah of merely local importance stands
1 mile south of the village. The village is the seat of the Persian agent who
governs the island. The Portuguese fort is now in a dilapidated con*
dition owing to the removal of stones from the w T alls for building purposes,
but it still contains two magnificent reservoirs, empty but in good repair.
HOT BALOCH or LASHAR—
A tribe inhabiting the Lashar district south of Bampur, in Persian Balfl-
chistan, and also wandering all over the Bampur desert and neighbouring
tracts, even down to Chahbar and the coast. They seem to be generally
nomadic in their habits, and Floyer calls them the Bedouin of the country.
The men are fine, wiry fellows of great endurance. They all carry a spin
ning machine stuck in their girdles opposite the hack* forming a
contrast to th ir wild looks and fierce conversation. They own some
camels, w T hich must be able to eat all kinds of fodder, and very many
small donkeys, goats and sheep, These they drive with them wherever in
the sandy waste they may find scanty dried grass, and carry the patches of
.woollen or goats’ hair cloth which, supported on small sticks, are regarded
as tents, and are in fact miniature copies of the tents of Persian Iliats.
• Mir Hot, of Pip, was the principal chief of the Hots of Lashar in
1876. He is supposed to be devoted to Persian interests, and the Governor
of Bampur probably derives a certain amount of support from the Lash aria
in the shape of a contingent of irregulars, when taking the field against
other tribes,
* An instrument which serves either as a knife or a saw.

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The item is Volume IV of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of Persia south and east of the Bandar Abbas-Kirman-Birjand to Gazik line, with the exception of Sistan, 'which is dealt with in the Military Report on Persian Sistan'. It also includes the islands of Qishm, Hormuz, Hanjam, Larak etc. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the whole district of Shamil.

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 323.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 313-321).

Prepared by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (322 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 324; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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