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12G TRAVELS IN OMAN. [di.

New coinage at Maskat.
20 copper coins make a gazi. Spanish dollar 200 pice or gazi,
20 gazi a mahmidi. A basi . . 40 „ „
15 mahmidi a dollar. Mahmidi . 20 „ „
Shuk or 5 „ „

The following were the principal articles
exposed for sale, with their prices, both of
which are nearly the same at all the other

interior towns:

Rice 12 pice per lb.
Wheat 12 „
Barley . 11
Beans 10 „ „
Camel’s flesh 16
Beef 20 „
Mutton 16 „
Kid 14 „
Sweet oil 50 „ „
Ghee 56 „ „

Friday, December 25th. At 11 a.m. we left
the town on a visit to the celebrated Jebel Akh-

dar, or Green Mountains. Following the skirts

of the hills to our left, we passed several
steril plains which present nothing worthy
of observation, and at three hours arrived

at Tanuf, where the Sheikh resides, whose

authority is paramount on the mountains.
After halting we were at first lodged in the

mosque, which, strange as it may appear, is
generally used in Oman as a caravansarai;