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120 ADMINISTRATION BEPORT OF TUB PERSIAN GULP POLITICAL

PART IV.
TRADE.

During the year under report there was a general decrease in the
trade of Musket. This decrease occurred principally under the head of
Exports, ns, owing to a great failure in the date crops, the export of that
article was on a much smaller scale than usual. The date crop at first
promised to be a flourishing one, even more so than the year before, hut
owing to the untimely and heavy rainfall which occurred just as the
dates were getting ripe, most of the crop was damaged and was con­
sidered ns unfit for export. As regards imports, also, the year compares
unfavourably with the previous one.

(Sd.) S. B. MILES, Lient,-Colonel,
H. B. M.’i Political Agent and Contnl,
Afnslat.