The Persian Problem : An Examination of the Rival Positions of Russia And Great Britain in Persia With Some Account of the Persian Gulf And the Bagdad Railway
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The rich can afford to send a mile away to the Shat-al- Arab for theirs. It is surprising, in the circum- stances, that cholera epidemics are not more frequent. The bazaar is fairly clean and more extensive than any of those I had previously visited in the Gulf, but there are no local industries beyond the packing of dates, and the shops are full of the usual blue packets of French sugar, Maskat turbans, and Man- chester atrocities. The main trade of the place depends on the export of dates, wh...ich in the year 1900 amounted to ;^3 80,000 ; wool from up country accounted for ;!f256,o8o; barley, ^382,122; and wheat only /^ 33^379- Sesame seed and liquorice are the only other articles of importance in a list which shows a total of over one and a half millions sterling. The report for 1901 was disappoint- ing owing to the fact that the rainfall has been terribly scanty in the last eighteen months and THE POSITION OF TURKEY IN THE GULF 131 the up-country districts are almost in a state of famine.
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