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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [175] (184/748)
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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DISTRICTS AND TOWNS
175
it is connected by a short cable. The station, consisting of a few
houses, stands on the west side of a small promontory and about
Wmi three miles from a fort, built at the point where the Anglo-Turkish
iBjl frontier (see p. 179) between the Aden Protectorate and Yemen
^ meets the sea. The port consists of an inlet running about 2 miles
inland, 50 yards broad at the mouth and widening to nearly a mile ;
there is a good landing-place just south of Cape Sheikh Sa'id.
8. The Kamaran Quarantine Station, for pilgrims on their way
flfs: to and from Mecca, lies on the eastern side of Kamaran Island,
5 ^ which belongs to Turkey. The pilgrims are segregated in enclosed
5 ® camps and kept there for a number of days that varies with
1S® circumstances. There is a well-equipped hospital and a number
Mt of houses for the accommodation of the medical staff. The adminis-
W® tration is in the hands of the international quarantine board, and
wdii the doctors and other officials are very cosmopolitan. The station
simp has a short tramway, an ice-making plant, and a distillery, and is
iffltbl connected by telegraph with the mainland by a branch of the
Hod Hodeidah-Loheia line. On the other side of Kamaran there is a
small native village in a palm-grove; elsewhere the island is prac-
infe tically devoid of vegetation,
eitati
2. Jauf Nejrdn
Stretching away some 160 miles NNE. of Yemen, and separated
fdlit from the plateau of San'a by the arid downs of Nehm and Beled
Khaulan, is an extensive hollow 1 —or, more precisely, a broken chain
meS® of hollows. This great irregular depression runs north and south,
t jji falling away from the tableland of Yemen and Asir, and having
)f ties on the east the high sands of the great eastern desert. The southern
tio# part of the depression is Jauf (known more particularly as Jauf
haven el-Yemen), the old centre of Sabaean civilization ; the northern
-.gnWil: part, divided from the first by a sandy swell, a protruding arm of
jndfe the western fringe of Ahqaf, is Nejran, famous as the last refuge
of Christianity in Arabia. The depression may be approached
from San'a by way of the Kharid valley from the south, or by
a road via Khamir and Sa'dah from the north,
j^jin Jauf comprises Upper and Lower Jauf (or, according to some
e [ e2l j|| authorities. Upper, Middle, and Lower), and may be considered to
p-j i include the contiguous oases of Khdb and The tract gets
its water-supply, in the main, from the Kharid, a remarkable stream
s ( a (ii said to be perennial in parts, which takes its rise in the San'a plateau
,■ jji and has a north-north-easterly course till reaching the oasis, when
it suddenly bends SE., leaves the oasis, and is then either lost in
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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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