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Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western India and South-Eastern Īrān : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER VII
ALONG THE PERSIAN GULF COAST
SECTION I—BANDAR ABBĀS AND THE ISLAND OF HORMUZ
BANDAR ABBĀS, which with its open roadstead has succeeded Hormuz,
both the old and the new, as the chief port of trade near the mouth of the
Persian Gulf, offered no inducement to make a long stay. There is nothing to
show that the locality first known to Europeans by the name of Gombrūn, could
claim any importance or historical interest before it was chosen for the town
founded by Shāh Abbās to serve as a counter-check upon the base which the
Portuguese held on the island of Hormuz for their domination of the Gulf trade.
Nor has the subsequent occupation of the site, during which it was the seat of
English and Dutch trading factories for close on a century and a half, left behind
any notable remains.¹
It was hence not easy to reconcile myself to the serious delay which arrange-
ments about transport for the onward journey along the coast entailed. For two
years the coast, arid at all times and exceedingly poor in its agricultural re-
sources, had seen no rain. The limited number of camels and donkeys ordinarily
to be found there had been reduced still more by this prolonged drought. It
caused conditions of real famine to prevail all along the coast, and also badly
affected what scanty grazing it might otherwise be expected to offer for transport
animals brought there. No wonder that caravans arriving from the Kermān
side promptly vanished with their animals before they could be engaged for my
proposed journey.
It was reassuring to find that orders issued from Bushire by the Governor-
General of the Coastal Province as a result of the representations made at
Tehrān had secured us the friendly attention of the local authorities and re-
moved the risk of such misapprehensions as had brought about interference with
our work on the way from Kermān. All the same, the necessary arrangements
for a fresh escort added to the delay. No official of the Department of Public
Instruction was forthcoming to accompany us as the representative of the
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