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PART III—CHAPTER XIV.
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One striking peculiarity of the trade returns of Bushire of the last 30 years,
is the great increase of the imports from the United Kingdom, so that what was
less than half of the imports from India in 1873, was more than double of the
Indian imports during the decade ending the year 1903.
The following are the exports and imports of Bushire, whose annual average
value each ranges over one lakh of rupees.
Bushire Exports.
I
Average for 10
Articles of export. years, 1904. 1903.
1894-1903.
i
Rs. Rs.
Opium • M Ml 37.70,602 29.87,090
Gum ... 3.93.*33 9.73.035
Woollen carpets ... 8,50,983 4.69,740
Unmanufactured tobacoo 3.46.657 3,81,740.
Hides and skins •M 3.47. *79 2,84,010^
Almonds and almond kernels 3,68,907 4.27.215 [
Specie ... 6,77,148 4.7 *.54o f
:
Bushire Imports.

Average for 10
years, 1904. *905-
*894.1903.

Rs. Rs. Rs.
Tissues of cotton 79.49.232 46,18,830
Tea ... M* 9.60,576 8,87,580
Sugar (i) loaf and candy • 1. 8,85,128 IX,I7,IIO
(2) Soft and moist ••1 6,35.377 5.02,710
Copper ... 3.89**33 7,3*.34°
Spices ... 1,42,082 *,49,o85
Cotton yarn and twist ••• *.59.942 2,65,800
Indigo 5.65.934 4.07.7*5
Drugs and medicines *.5 *,63* *,33.455

The imports into Bushire, it will be noted, far outweigh its exports, including
the specie and bullion among both imports and exports.
Appendix H (i) shews the shipping of the port of Bushire since 1873.
Trade of Lingha.
Fifty years ago Lingah was almost unknown as a port in the Persian Gulf.
In 1863 Colonel Pelly* estimated its trade at one-fourth that of Bushire* and
•Report on (be i.ibes, etc., oronnd the shores of expressed fears that its comriierce, as com-
the Persianrou.f, paragraph 67. pared with that of other ports, would rather
decrease than otherwise, under a thorough development of the Gulf trade i because
it was less favourably situated perhaps than any any other port. The trade
of the place has grown, however, in a remarkable manner, as the following
statement! shows :r—
f Taken (com Appendices F (7)—(12).