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RESIDENCY AND MASKAT POLITICAL AGENCY FOR THE YEAR 1003*1901. 61
rates. Some small shipments were made to Bombay and sold thero at a profit.
The rate fluctuated betweeu &119 and Pwl35 per 100 dollars. The rate at the
end of the year stood at 11127.
Bahrein has been better served by shipping this year; but there is still
room for improvement. Cargo was shut out by steamers occasionally, and
there are about 1,200 tons of dates for Jedda and Egyptian ports, besides other
cargo awaiting shipment sinco the past sis weeks. Five to six hundred
pilgrims collect here annually to take passages to Jedda and pay from B50
to R70 for a single deck passage to that port. Two British and ono Greek
vessel carried pilgrims from Bahrein. This traffic is worth catering for.
Seventy-three British steam vessels, aggregating 102,S7G tons and one
Greek vessel of 1,125 tons, entered the port of Ifanama and forty-one British
representing 50,055 tons and two Greek of 2,250 net tonnage cleared from the
same port in the past year.

J. CALCOTT GASKIN,
Assistant Political Agent.
Bahbzix;
Tie 0th January 1004.