"استطلاعات في بلاد الرافدين وكردستان وشمال غرب بلاد فارس ولرستان في الفترة من أبريل إلى أكتوبر ١٨٨٨، كتبها المقدم ف. ر. مونسيل، فرع الاستخبارات. يوجد مجلدان. المجلد الأول: تقرير سردي ووصف للمدن الكبرى والطرق المؤدية منها. شيملا: فرع الاستخبارات، إدارة قائد الإمداد والتموين، ١٨٩٠" [ظ‎‎٨] (٣١٢/٢١)

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Cargo has to be landed in lighters, and carried from them to the beach on
men's backs. The boats vary a good deal in size. The smaller size would
carry about 7 tons, and the larger 20 tons.
I/inga. Linga is also an open roadstead, vessels having to lie about U
miles from the shore in 5 fathoms of water, their position being entirely open
to the snemal ov north-west wind. Landing is easy as a rule.
There are a considerable number of bug galas and lighters, and some were
building on the beach. There is a small harbour of stonework about 100 yards
square, dry at low tide, with an opening on the north side for boats to enter.
Bahrain. Bahrain is an island on the Arabian coast. The anchorage is 4
miles off the town in 6 fathoms of water. Landing is difficult, the water
being very shallow for some distance from the shore. The channel is buoyed
by the British India Steam Navigation Company, the outer buoy being IS
mi es from the town. The navigation of the channel approaching the town is
Bushahr. Bushahr is the principal seaport of Persia, but the harbour is by
no means a good one. The anchorage, called the “ Outer Roads," is 6 miles
from the town in 4 fathoms, and that of the “ Inner Roads " is miles from
the shore. Vessels drawing 13 feet can enter the “ Inner Roads."
• in 1 th6 P i? r ™ o C1 ™ izer Per * e P olis , manned by German officers, was
in the harbour. H.M.S. Turquoise was unable to enter the “Inner Roads"
because of her draught.
Kowait.—Kousn t is the only good natural harbour in the Gulf, and is
t 16 main outlet for Central Arabian and Najd traffic. The town is on the
south side °f a fine clear bay, 20 miles long, east ahd west, by 10 broad
with water of a suitable depth for anchorage all over (10 fathoms and
sTuthist 18 g00d h0lding gr ° mid ' The ^ trance t0 ^ ba“o S the
Mouth of the Shatt-’l-Arab.
The low coast and the fort at Fao are scarcely visible when the vessel
reaches the outer buoy at the bar. The position of the navigable channel at
the river mouth has altered considerably of late years, and the charts
n use, which refer to former surveys, are misleading. No regular surveys havl
iTgmlno™ 1 yeal ' S ’ a “ d the Tu " kish ohjectTty
The entrance to the river is between two banks under water the Abadan
bank on the north-east, and the Abdallah on the south-west. There used to S
two channels divided by a sand-bank, and the best channel lay on the west siS
of the bank. The eastern has now silted „n and *i, f •' •
only navigable one In addition to this, the Abadan banThas extended
and become merged with a larger bank to the east called the Maidan All
S ilted'‘uDatThe h i r o ( ^ hr '’d 1 J iShir) ’ the ° U “ onth o£the Kim “> « now quite
an alternative channeT fo beC ° m e S “° re f eVer y y ear ' 14 ms at time
ascending the Shatt-dlrab P^ttein? ‘d ^ without
that native crafts coidd not asMnd H LonT ^ T S °d ^ ked
showing above water as wp unecorl V ^ ships of mud banks were
its lowest. P ed up Stream lo ' 1 ^ before the tide was at