Identifier: persianprobleme00whig (find matches)
Title: The Persian problem; an examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia, with some account of the Persian gulf and the Bagdad railway
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Whigham, Henry James, 1869-
Subjects: Baghdad Railway Eastern question (Central Asia)
Publisher: London Isbister
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ous student of Persian politics,that they might add a little badly needed light tothe discussion of the affairs of Persia and the Gulf. 10 INTRODUCTION If they contain information of any value whatsoever,they owe it in the first place to the kindness .of thepresent Viceroy of India, who not only advised meto go to the Gulf but instructed his subordinateofficials in that part of the world to give me allassistance in their power ; and in the second place tothese officials themselves who showed to me, asindeed they do to all travellers, the most unfailingcourtesy and hospitality. I am especially indebtedto Colonel Kemball, the British Resident in the Gulf,who not only allowed me to accompany him roundthe Gulf on his winter tour of inspection, but waskind enough to read most of my letters on the Gulfbefore they appeared in print. I have elsewhereacknowledged the generous assistance given me byGeneral Houtum-Schindler and by Mr. Eabino, themanager of the Imperial Bank of Persia in Teheran.
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CHAPTER II FRENCH INTRIGUES AT MASKAT Ma skat, which is reached from Karachi in someforty-eight hours by the mail steamers of the BritishIndia Company, lies about three hundred miles downthe Arabian coast from Cape Musandim, and is,therefore, outside the Persian Gulf proper; but itsnatural strength and historical prestige combineto make it inseparable from the politics of thenarrower waters which in the past it has alwaysinfluenced and at times dominated. On a clear morning you may bring up the jaggedmountainous coast of Oman at a distance of thirtyor forty miles, and an hour or so later the mud-coloured houses of Muttra, clustered together underthe rocks, become visible over the steamers bow ;but the presence of Maskat, save for a glimpse of ayellow Portuguese fort, is quite unsuspected untilthe coast is almost reached, and a deep cove suddenlydiscovers itself on the port bow, land-locked onevery side save the north, with a white flat-roofedArab town occupying the shelving southern b

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