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Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. Robs, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
transmitting the Administration Report for the year 1877-78 ... 1
PART I.
General Report for 1877-78 • •• 2
Oman. Arab Coast... • •• • •• ... «*.
Bahrein... 4
Nejd. Provinco of Fars and the Persian Coast and Islands. Bushire ... 5
Coast from Bushiro to Lingah. Lingah. Bunder Abbass • •• 6
Persian-Baloochistan Coast. Bassidoro 7
Establishments • ... ... ib.
Remarks on the climate of Bushire, and Tables. Table showing force and pi revail-
ing directions of winds and recorded rainfall at Bushire for tli o year
1877-78 ... ... ... 9
Abstract Table of meteorological observations for the year ending 31st March 1878
taken at the Residency Observatory, Bushire ... 10
Recent contributions to our geographical and general information about Persia
and adjaceut countries. Travels and researches ... ... 11
Notes on the Kara Aghach River by Dr. F. C. Andreas ... • •• ... 13
Route from Bushirc to Lar and Shiraz • •• ... 17
Route from Lar to Shiraz • «« • •• ... 18
Persian Post OfRce. Foreign Postage ... 20
Tables of Persian money, measures, &c. ... 22
Cycle for official year • •• • •• ... 2-1

PART IL
Report on trade of the Persian Gulf for the year 1877. Effects of late war on
the trade. Steam communication. Grain harvest. Scarcity of coin.
Opium. Pearl fisheries ... • •• ... 25
Impediments to development of trade in Persia ... 28
Notes on the pearl fisheries of the Persian Gulf prepared by Captain E. L.
Durana, First Assistant Political Resident, Persian Gulf ... 27
Classes of men engaged in the Pearl Trade of the Golf... ••• ... 29
Seasons. Hair or Pearl Banks ... ... • •• ... 34
Fertility • •• • •• ••• • •• ... 35
Ojiters. Pearls • •• • •• ... 37
Memorandum on the system of cultivating the date palm in the vicinity of Bushire,
with some information connected with its growth, produce, pnoe, Ac, Ac,
by Mr. J. C. Edwards, 2nd Assistant Resident ... • •• ... 43
Memorandum showing the number of Returns accompanying the Trade Report of
the Residency, Persian Gulf • •• • •• ... 47
Statement showing the total import and export of the Bombay Presidency, the Pro-
▼ince of Sind and Calcutta, with the Persian Gulf for the year 1870-77 ... 49