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up to please his hearer, and convince him of the speaker’s friendly feeling s
towards his country.
Assuming this to be so, and there was no reason to doubt it, the language
held by His Highness, and the analogy which was evidently in his mind between
the situation of Persia and China in relation to Russia, Sir A. Hardinge
thought, sufficiently significant, when his ultra-Russophil reputation is borne in
mind, to merit notice.
(v) Visits of Foreign men-of-war to the Gulf, 1896-1906.
125. We add below a statement of the foreign men-of-war that visited the
Gulf of Oman and the Persian gulf from 1896 to 1905 :—

Statement showing visits of foreign men of-war to the Gulf of Oman and the
Persian Gulf from 1895 io l9°5'

Year. French. Russian. 01 other powers.

1895-96 ... Troude.
Maskat, March 1895.

1897-98 ... Gaves.
Maskat.
1898.99 ... Scorpion. Arcona {German),
Maskat. Maskat, 23rd March
1899.
Bushirc, 29th March.
Gilyak.
1899-1900 ...
Maskat.
Bandar Abbas.
Bushire.
Mohammerah.
Basrah.
Koweit.
1900-01 Drome.
Maskat, August 1900,
Bandar Abbas.
Linguh.
Bushire.
Koweit.

Mohammerah.
Basrah.
Catinat.
Maskat and Sur, .Novem­
ber 1900.
Acheron.
Maskat.