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Teller from Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
transmitting the Administration Report for the year 1878-79 . .• • *

PART L
General Report for 1878-79 2
'Oman. Arab Coast* . ib,
Bahrein • . 4
Nejd, El Hast, El Katr 5
Southern Persia . 7
Bassidore . . * . .. 10
Establishments • ib.
Slave Trade... II
Table shotting force and prevailing directions of winds and recorded rainfall at •-
Bushire for the year 1878-79 . . . • . . . • . 12
Abstract Table of Meteorological Observations for the year ending 31st March
1879, taken at the Residoocy Observatory, Bushire . • . . 13
Meteorological observations taken at Shiraz, 1878-79 . . 14
Description of. the Bahrein Islands by Captain E. L. Durand, First Assistant
Resident, Persian Gulf.................................................... 16
Memorandum on the Topography, Ac, of Khuzistan or Persian Arabia, by
P. J. C. Robertson, Esq., Assistant Political Agent, Busrah . 19
Routes to Ispahan from Bunder Deelam and Hindi&n . . 26
PART n.
Report on Trade of the Persian Gulf for 1878. Grain, &c^ opium . . .27
Mother o'pearl, cotton, dates and fruits, Persian tobacco, cotton-goods, sugar,
specie, copper ..... . 28
Steam communication . . . ... • 29
Trade between Persian Gulf and India. i6.
Local impedimenta to British trade . 20
Opportunities for extension of British trade . . 31
Memorandum on the opinm of Persia .. . • ib.
Memorandum of cultivation of a village in one of the Boolooks (districts) of
Shiraz • . . . ■ •
34
List of vessels engaged in trade and pearl fisheries and fishing boats on the
coast of ’Oman .... • 40
List of vessels engaged in trade of Bahrein 1 41
"W* ensas°* “ *”*** ^heries oa tht Persian Coast firom Lingah
42
Statement showing the total value of import and export trade between the PreaL
dencie* of Bombay and Bengal, and the Province of Bind, and the Persian
Gulf, from the year 1872-73 to 1877-78* ae showy in the Indian Trade
Returns •• 44