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'File 4/1 General Information regarding Kuwait and Hinterland' [167r] (333/474)
The record is made up of 1 file (235 folios). It was created in 1933-1948. 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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Booms Report 7
pays. A considerable proportion of the business of each
voyage seems to consist of trying to clear up the debts
of the last, and for this purpose odd mates and younger
sons and brothers (always without passports) are left
at odd places up and do n the coast, while the boom moves
on. These pick up their own ship later, with cash: or
if they don’t they make the best of their way home by
other vessels. (Incidentally they never pay any fares: no
fares are charged, for any Arab ship will carry a debt-
collector for any other.)
The outward cargo finally disposed of, the boom
moves on with whatever funds may be in hand -- and they
are usually sufficient, for after all the Hadhrami pays
cash, and so do odd extra passengers picked up on the
African coast: and some old debts are always settled --
and goes, say, down to the delta of the Rufiji. Here
she buys a cargo of mangrove poles, or at least pretends
to buy her cargo. In actual fact she buys half a cargo,
steals the other half. This is a time-honoured practice
which has been going on, apparently, for centuries.
Previously - prior to the Berman times - the Sultan of
Zanzibar had the cutting rights for this delta,
and under that sort of management the present system
of paying for half the cargo, stealing the other half,
was built up. As far as I have been able to discover,
the Bermans, if they did not find out quite what was
going on, at least became very suspicious, and for a
year or two before the war outbreak of war in 1914 made
the Arab shins load from a central dump at Salale,
under close supervsision. The usual method, and the one
in use now, is to allow the Arabs to move about in the
delta more or less as they like, and only one government
officer - a forester - looks after them. The cutting
rights are now the property of a contracting company
which, since it spends nothing in the delta, itseli
and pays only royalties on what is sold, does not care
to check stealing. The company is represented by one
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This file contains a number of reports concerning different aspects of life in Kuwait, including its geography, history, flora and fauna, weather, political administration and leading personalities. Unless otherwise stated, the reports' author is Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson (the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait).
The reports appear as follows:
- Note on Kuwait in 1933 incorporating Geography, Administration, History and Trade (folios 2-62)
- Note on Villages of Kuwait State (folios 63-76)
- Note on the Various Districts in Kuwait, Kuwait Neutral Zone, Summan Area , Hussaim and Suda (folios 77-104)
- Notes on the "Batin" Valley, and "Dibdibba" Country (folios 105-120)
- Note on the "Shaqq" Depression (folios 121-123)
- Note on "Failakah" Island (folios 124-130)
- Note on Native Craft of Kuwait (folios 131-135)
- Note on the Prevailing Winds of Kuwait (folios 136-138)
- Note on the Different Kinds of Fish found at Kuwait (folios 139-144)
- Notes on the Drinking Water (Wells, etc) available in Kuwait Town, in Case of Military or Naval Operations (folios 145-147)
- Notes on Personalities in Kuwait (folios 148-154)
- Notes on Kuwait (folios 155-159)
- A report on Kuwait Dhows (with odd notes attached at rear) written by Alan Villiers in 1939 (folios 160-183)
- Leading Personalities of Kuwait written by Major Tom Hickinbotham in 1942 (folios 187-198)
- Who's Who in Muscat written by John Baron Howes in 1942 (folios 199-209)
- Conditions in Kuwait written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy in 1947 (folios 226-228)
Some of the reports contain handwritten notes in Arabic, notably when giving place names and geographical information.
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- 1 file (235 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 237; these numbers are written in pencil 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.
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- IOR/R/15/5/179
- Title
- 'File 4/1 General Information regarding Kuwait and Hinterland'
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- front, front-i, 2r:237v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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