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From these figures it may be noted how greatly the transhipment
trade exceeds the local in amount and importance. The following
are the details of the two categories taken separately.
(1) Transhipment trade. The principal articles of import, in
1914-15, taken in their order of value were: Cotton goods of various
kinds, £580,000; hides and skins, £520,000 ; grains and pulse
(including flour), £490,000; coffee, £320,000; coal, £210,000;
tobacco, £150,000 ; sugar and confectionery, £90,000 ; provisions,
£70,000 ; oils, gums and resins, silk goods, and ivory. i

The principal articles of export were : Hides and skins, £640,000 ;
cotton goods, £530,000; coffee, £380,000; grains and pulse, ■
£360,000; tobacco, £110,000 ; salt, £76,000; sugar, £75,000; gums
and resins, £35,000 ; provisions, £30,000 ; dyeing and tanning
materials, shells, and ivory. j
The movement and distribution of the trade of Aden with dif­ i
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ferent countries and localities was as follows in 1914^15 : total trade
with India, £1,180,000 ; Jibuti and Obok (French Somaliland),
£780,000; the United Kingdom, £700,000 ; the United States,
£600,000; Arabian Red Sea ports (chiefly Hodeidah, Jiddah, and
Mocha), £400,000; Somaliland, £340,000; Arabian Sea ports
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(Muscat, Makalla, Shiheir, &c.), £260,000; France, £190,000;
Italian Red Sea ports (Musawwa*, Assab), £140,000 ; Abyssinia, !
£130,000 ; Independent Somali ports, £115,000 ; Egypt, £80,000 ;
Mozambique, £35,000, &c.
(2) Inland trade. Though the foregoing facts are instructive in
a general way, it is more essential, for the particular purpose of
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this book, to consider in detail the trade of Aden with the interior.
The movement in 1914-15 was as follows:

Imports from the interior . £140,000
Exports to the interior . £120,000.

The principal articles that passed out, arranged in the order of
their value, were : coffee, £30,000; fodder, £29,000; drugs (hat,
almost entirely), £21,000; raw hides and skins, £18,000; firewood
and charcoal, £14,000 ; animals (chiefly bullocks, sheep, and goats, i
and, in a less degree, camels), £6,000; provisions (including native
food products such as ghi, eggs, and honey), £8,000 ; vegetables
and fruits (the latter chiefly dates), £5,000 ; oils (chiefly jinjili
0r sesame-oil), £3,000; dyeing and tanning materials (including
saitron and henna), £1,000; and other less important products
such as reeds (for building purposes and mats), sesame, madder,
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P°^a.sk> and rose-water.
-Che principal articles which passed into the interior were :

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