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FOR THE YEAR 1018.
The Shiraz mails continued to I’^eroadfto aLTfrom ^^ingJh Mere £
Condition cf ro«d*. There wos only one incident on tbc

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Khin o( Bastak, who punished the culprits, collected the donkeys and des
patched them to Bandar Abbas.
No instance of gun runniug was re-
Arm« traffic. ported during the year.
Of the* three slaves, who were from the Trucial coast and who had not had
their cases settled at the close of the. last
Slave traffic. year, one absconded before settlement of his
ease, one was allowed to go wherever he liked and the remaining one was sent
back to the Residency Agent at Shargah in order to get hip case settled there.
Of the 11 slaves who took refuge at this Vice-Consulate during the year,
nine were manumitted, one absconded before settlement of his case and the
remaining one was sent back to the Residency Agent at Shargah.
The mail service was maintained by the Persian Customs launch to and
from Henjam where the British India
Britiih iutorcaU.
Steam Navigation Company’s Mail stea-
mors were calling fortnightly.
Mails were occasionally also brought by His Majesty’s Transports, which
visited the port on 11 occasions.
The port suffered throughout the year from the scarcity of merchant stea­
mers. only four steamers of the British India Steam Navigation Company’s
visiting the port during the period. The Persian Gulf Steam Navigation Com^
pany’s S. S. ‘ Zayani ” called at this port on two occasions aad a Chinese
steamer once.
One Chinese steamer chartered by the British India Steam Navigation
rcreig. wc.. Company visited the port during the year.

J. H. Bill, Esq., /.O.S., Deputy Political Besident, Busliire, visited Lingah
vuiu of tho Deputy Political Bcudent. on H. M. 8. “ Muzaffar ” on the 19th
January and on H. M. S. “ Lawrence ”
on the 2nd July.
His Majesty’s ships visited the
VUiUof HU Majcttj't ihipa. port
on 13 occasions during the year.
In February a sailing boat belonging to Haji Rais Hasan of Lingah, after
Fir.c,. disposing of oargo at Nakhl Taqi, was
persons as passengers for Lin»ah ^ a Par> of
arms and made the Nakhoda of the |m,i day °ut at sea they produced fire-
on arrival they bound thec d car iePdrofi IVC6 ^ °f,Wi "here
mg to about Rs. 7,000 proceeds of the " lo of cargo ^ ^
amount-
ed atInNnkUCTkqiS,vUh^car»!,0of dStl° ^•‘’if Bahraini
l» ground-
KaSTaqi and Asalu. Both £SLF£U
people of
the end
OeloS,'.«* .recked on Buc.ti i„

4 »m.g boat with cargo .ad epeoi. t, ih. p, „„ . , .
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