'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎123] (290/524)

PORTION OF THE PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
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March Wth .—Mounted at 5-30 a. m. Rode East and a little
North through a desert filled with a net-work of canals and collections
of mounds, apparently the remains of villages, dhe greatei number
of the canals are parallel about a hundred yards apart, and run North
and South.
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Tradition has it that rice, wheat, barley, and in fact all kinds of
grain were cultivated here, and that the water for irrigation was
brought from Gurmut Ali, about miles above Bussorah.
We arrived at Zein, on the right bank of the Shat-ul-Arab, almost
opposite Mahommerah, at half-past twelve.
The kit and servants were placed in what is called a cargo-boat, and
we ourselves crossed the river in a bellam.
We were dragged over an island of mud, and arrived at Mahom
merah about half-past two in the afternoon.
Here we expected to find our horses and mules from Bushire, but
we could neither see nor hear anything of them.
The best thing then to be done was to push on to Dorak. To this
place there are two ways. One by the road, a journey of three days, and
the other by water along a canal, a journey of twenty hours. We
chose the latter, and by eight in the evening we were moving in two
large bellams along the Bamsheer; but scarcely had we got to the
Northern end of the town, when the boatmen struck work. One had
his dinner to eat, another his pipe to smoke, while a third, because it
was the Ramazan, declared he would not go till morning. We then sent
to the Sheikh, and his uncle soon appeared with a message, that if the
boatmen did not at once, and that quickly, take us to Dorack, if ever
they appeared in Mahommerah again, they would have their throats
cut.
The threat appeared to convey some meaning, for it had the desired
effect. The men moved at once, and for fifteen consecutive hours
worked incessantly without a murmur. We pulled along the Bamsheer
that night for two hours and then made fast to the bank.
March \2th % —At 3 in the morning we again started and tracked at
the rate of two miles an hour along the Hafaah, and at G entered the
Nar-el-Felaheah or Dorack canal.