Abstract: Confidential report compiled by Hyacinth Louis Rabino. The report was printed in Simla at the Government Monotype Press, 1911.The report is divided into three parts (I-III), as follows:Part I: Geographical and Commercial Notes (folios 6-39) with sections on the province of Kurdistan (including information on cultivation, population, revenue, roads, imports/exports, and the capital, Senna), its tribes (including statistics on population, land, and residences), rivers, and mountains, and appendices comprised of government lists of villages.Part II: History (folios 40-54) with a chart showing the Valis and Provincial Governors of Kurdistan for the years 1169-1905 (folio 41).Part III: Gazetteer of Kurdistan (folios 55-104) arranged alphabetically.At the back of the volume is a glossary (folios 105-06) including notes on the weights used in Kurdistan.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 108; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the second in a series of two items on Lieutenant Dominicetti and Mocha (the other is IOR/F/4/690/18908). The principal correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain John Richard Lumley of HMS
Topaz, Senior Officer in the Red Sea; and Captain William Bruce, Government Agent.The item concerns:The punitive expedition against Mocha on account of the treatment of Lieutenant Bartholomew DominicettiAn account of the blockade and bombardment of Mocha, including a return of those killed or injured in the action (ff 264-265 and ff 316-317)The negotiations between Bruce and the new Dola [Governor] of Mocha, Ameer Futhullah el Mahdee [Amir Futhullah al-Mahdi]The treaty between the British and the Imaum of Senna [Mahdi ‘Abdullāh al-Qāsimī, Imam of Yemen] which covers: rights of British subjects in Yemen; rights of the Resident at the Factory in Mocha; duties payable by British subjects at MochaA discussion of the influence of the Ottoman Empire through the Viceroy of Egypt on YemenThe appointment of Lieutenant George Robson as Acting Resident at Mocha, and instructions to him.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 38, P.C. [Previous Communication] 61, [Season 18]23/24’ and ‘Examiner’s Office November 1821’.Physical description: The documents are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front of the item to the rear.