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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [102] (111/748)
The record is made up of 1 volume (371 folios). It was created in 1916. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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102
HEJAZ
port of Jiddah was 1,055, representing an aggregate of 656,632
tons.
In 1910 the goods exported from Jiddah were valued at over
£65,000, but in each of the two preceding years they were nearer
£50,000 ; they consisted chiefly of sheep-skins, goat-skins, cow
hides, camel-hides, wool, henna, gum, mother-of-pearl shells, &c.
The great export is specie, amounting, it appears, to considerably
over £1,000,000 a year. No regular stock of coal is maintained,
and not more than a hundred and fifty tons of Welsh coal can be
relied on at any time. _ i 11
As in the case of exports, no official statistics are obtainable on
the imports of Jiddah, and hardly any information from local
merchants. In 1910 it seems certain that about £90,000 was paid
as import duties, which would give a little less than £1,000,000
worth (invoice value) of dutiable imports. To this total must be
added goods imported from Ottoman ports, on which no duty is
levied. According to one estimate the total yearly imports have
been placed as high as £1,750,000 ; as exports are trifling in amount,
the goods imported are for the most part paid for by the money
of the pilgrims. „
Imports consist chiefly of grain, piece-goods, coffee, tea, sugar,
flour, tobacco, spices, timber, carpets, crockery, and hardware.
Under normal conditions the principal imports from the British
Empire are rice and cereals from India, piece-goods from the
United Kingdom (direct, or via Constantinople, Syria, or India),
hardware and metals from India and the United Kingdom. Flour
is nearly all from British India, though a little of superior quality
is imported from Marseilles and Russia. Rice is from British India,
but of wheat only a small proportion is Indian ; nearly all is from
Basra, the freights being light, whereas freights from Egypt are
found prohibitive. After the outbreak of war with Turkey, in
November 1914, grain and foodstuffs (including from Egypt)
continued to be imported, in accordance with the policy of the
British Government, which intended them for the support of the pil
grims and the Arab population of thtf Hejaz. The action of the
Turkish authorities in seizing this grain for the use of their troops
led for a time to the stoppage of supplies. But, owing to the
distress among the civil population in the Hejaz, the British govern
ment has since permitted the importation of grain and foodstuns
to be resumed until May 1916, when all sea-trade was once more
stopped, only to be again permitted after the revolt in June. (
A share of the trade with Central Arabia is absorbed by Yam bo,
the natural port for Medina and Nejd, and, although its commerce
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This volume is A Handbook of Arabia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: May, 1916) and contains geographical and political information of a general character concerning the Arabian Peninsula. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, from sources, including native information obtained for the purpose of compiling the volume, since the outbreak of the First World War. Separate chapters are devoted to each of the districts or provinces of the Arabian Peninsula and include information on the physical character, as well as social and political surveys.
The volume includes a note on official use, title page, and a 'Note' on the compilation of the volume. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following sections:
- Chapter 1: Physical Survey;
- Chapter 2: Social Survey;
- Chapter 3: The Bedouin Tribes: A. Northern Tribes, B. Tribes of the Central West, C. Tribes of the Central South, D. Tribes of the Central East, Supplement: Non-Bedouin Nomads;
- Chapter 4: Hejaz;
- Chapter 5: Asir;
- Chapter 6: Yemen;
- Chapter 7: Aden and Hadhramaut: A. Aden and the Interior, B. Hadhramaut;
- Chapter 8: Oman: A. The sultanate of Oman, B. Independent Oman;
- Chapter 9: The Gulf Coast: A. The Sultanate of Koweit [Kuwait], B. Hasa, C. Bahrain, D. El-Qatar, E. Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ;
- Chapter 10: Nejd;
- Chapter 11: Jebel Shammar;
- Chapter 12: The Northern Nefūd and Dahanah Belts;
- Chapter 13: Settled Tribes of the North-West;
- Chapter 14: Settled Tribes of the West;
- Chapter 15: Settled Tribes of the South;
- Chapter 16: Settled Tribes of the Centre;
- Appendix: Note of Topographical and Common Terms;
- Index;
- Plates.
The front of the volume includes a 'List of Maps' and a 'Note on the Spelling of Proper Names'. Maps contained in this volume are:
- Map 1: Arabia: Districts and Towns;
- Map 2: Orographical Features of Arabia;
- Map 3: Land Surface Features of Arabia;
- Map 4: Tribal Map of Arabia.
The volume also contains fifteen plates of photographs and sketches by Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Douglas Carruthers, Captain Gerard Leachman, Dr Julius Euting, George Wyman Bury, and Samuel Barrett Miles.
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- 1 volume (371 folios)
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The volume is arranged in chapters. There is a contents page, list of maps, alphabetical index, and list of plates.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which 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. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last of various maps which are inserted at the back of the volume, on number 371.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:381, 384:726, ii-r:ii-v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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