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AND MUSCAT POLITICAL AGENCY FOR THE YEAR 1874-75. 29
B.
Statement showing the manner in which opium was exported from Persia during (he
gear 1874%
Total or bx-
To WJIAT POUTS. I'ORT ¥ ROM
EACH FOST.
Dale of export. Port of export. By what vessel b. a i * a o a
n
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3 3 2
X cn -J P3 « O
1874. Cater. Caret. Caret. Cater. Catet.
Jany. to Mar. ... Bu8hlrc S.S. Meiopotamia... 224 62 39 326
(S.S. Qunga, Lome, 610
Of tb«
April to Jane... Ditto X and Rcdgauntlet... 154 31 186 } 1 crop of
Ditto Bunder Abbass S.S. Qunga 73 73 73 1873-74.
July to Sept. ... Bushins S.S. Timsah 128 3 124 255
< S.S. Mesopotamia 1,306
Oct. to Dee. ... Ditto X and Agean 647 15 399 1,051 } ”) Of the
{■crop of
Ditto Bunder Abbass S.S. Agean 113 113 113 ) 1S74-75.
Total 1,339 60 633 1,816 180 2,002
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Statement showing the probable export of opium from Persia during the gear 187475.
Total of hx-
To 'WllAT POSTS. tobt fhom
each fort.
u 3
Date of cr.port. Port of export By what vessels. -o
ol 8 d
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p. a o J: O CO 'a
a s
!l § •s 1J 2 M
C3 s o cs
Catet. Caret. Cwti. Caret. Cater.
September to Dc- Bushiro S. S. Timtah, Mesopo­ 775 IS 613 1,306
ceraber 1874. tamia, and Agean } 1,419
December 1874. Bunder Abbass S. S. Agean 113 113
January 1876 ... Bnshlre S. S. Rokebg 99 47 146 146
January 1875, total exports up to date 987 18 600 1,452 113 1,665
Beady for shipment at Busbire ... 73 336
Ditto at Bunder Abbass 2a}
Probable export up to end of season at Bushire 100
Ditto ditto at Bunder Abbasa a} 130
1,625 406 2,030

British Residency, Bushier, (Sd.) G. Lucas,
The 25th January 1875. ] Uncovenanted Asstt. Resident, Persian Qulf \

Memorandum on the Trade of Muscat for 1874-75.
The annexed Returns show the approximate value of imports and
Trtde exports during the year. A marked increase
is obseri able over those of the preceding
year. Though Muscat is by far the principal commercial dep6t of