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RESIDENCY AND KASKAT POLITICAL AGENCY FOR TUB YEAR 1003-1004.
Tlio percentages of tho total trade of Maskat with various countries are as
follows
United Kingdom 8 per cent.
India • • • 07 n
Franco . . 6
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America • • • 4 ii
Asiatic Turkey . 1-2
ii
Persia . • 71 ii
Russia . • 11 ii
Zanzibar and East Africa 0*3 ii
Other countries • 5
ii
There is an increase of 24 and 61 per cent, in the tonnage and the shipping,
number of vessels that entered and cleared from Maskat Harbour during the
year. The increase is due to the bi-weekly calls of the British Indian steamers
both ways up and down the Persian Gulf.
"W". G. GREY, Captain,
Hi8 Britannic Majesty's Consul and
Bolitical Agent, Maskat*

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