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Fallahiyeh district and the natu re of t^ e principal land appr^^g to
Khor Musa. In the following' year two British naturalists, Colonel
Bailward and Mr. "Woosnam, travelled in 'Arabistan. Valaable explora
tions were made in ^Arabistan by Lieutenant D. L. R. Lon'mer, His
Britannic Majesty^s first Vice-Consul at Ahwaz in 1904 and the following
years. In the cold season of 1905-06 a number of most productive journeys
were undertaken by Major P. Z. Cox, as resident in the Persian Gulf
chiefly for the purpose of solving 1 topographical problems connected with
the Gazetteer. In ^Arabistan Major Cox visited Dilam, Behbehan, the
Hindiyan River, Ma^shur, the Jarrahi River, Buziyeh, Fallahiyeh, the
Bahmanshir, and Qubban, determining carefully the course of the
Hindiyan and casting much light on the connection of the important inlet
of Khor Musa with the K.arun River and Bahmanshir, which till his
jouney had been very imperfectly understood. In ^Oman he travelled by
land from Ras-al-Khaimah to Sohar via Baraimi, Lieutenant C. A. Scott of
the "Poyal Indian Marine accompanying 1 him to determine accurately the
positbn of the Baraimi Oasis, which was found to be misplaced in all
existhg maps. In 1905 Captain Knox, the Political Agent at Kuwait,
made a tour to the southward from that place; and in the next year, soon
after he close of the period, the same officer reached Hafar, a famous
landnarlc, in the interior distant 160 miles from Kuwait, vhich, though
mentimed by previous European travellers in Arabia, had not been reached
by ary of them. Between 1903 and 1905 the geography of many large
and a most unknown tracts in Eastern Arabia was elucidated by political
offices through native information, the largest shares in this /ery-difficult
work being taken by Captain Prideaux, the Political Agent m Bahrain,
and ly Major Cox, the Political Resident in the Gulf.
Geological 1 general geological reconnaissance of both sides of the Gxlf, com-
sance of the l ) ' ne l with a closer examination of localities where the existence of minerals
Persian Gulf, wassuspected, was carried out in the winter of 1904-05 by Mr. G. Pilgrim
of the Indian Geological Survey, the results of whose expedition are
summarised by himself in an Appendix to the Gazetteer. Some coal
scams in the country behind Siir in J Oman had previously been scientific
ally examined in 1901 by Drs. von Krafft and Oldham of the Geological
Survey of India.
rtseaJcT 1 ' 0 The attentIon of the Government of India was drawn in 1904 to the
prehistoric tumuli of the Bahrain Islands, and arrangements were made
for the excavation of some of the mounds. A cursory inspection was also
made, through native agency, of ancient sites near Ganareh on the
Persian coast,