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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [102] (117/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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102 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS rao. 90
noteworthy fact is the great rise in the export of coffee
to Africa.
Pearls are an important export. Bahrein has a
floating population of about 20,000 employed solely in
pearl-fishing, and the island up to 1912 was becoming
more and more a market for pearls. Though the
local output is said not to vary greatly from
year to year, there was a great rise in the export
value between 1903 and 1911. The value exported
from Bahrein was £685,020 in 1903, £732,666 in 1909,
£928,533 in 1910, and £1,928,000 in 1911. This
rise was due partly to an increase in the quantity of
imported pearls and partly to enhanced prices.
The export from all the ports is almost entirely to
Bombay, at which town Austria was normally one of
the largest buyers. France took in 1909 pearls to the
value of about £253,000. The export at Aden con
sists of trans - shipment goods from Massawa in
Abyssinia. Muscat's pearl export was declining
before 1914. There is a large export, for which no
statistics are available, direct to India from Debai,
which forms the chief outlet for the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
pearl fisheries.
The total value of gums imported at Aden in 1913
was £60,585, of which over £24,000 represented frank
incense sent from Africa to Makalla. Quite half the
total value came from independent Somali ports, the
icst chiefly from the Arabian Gulf ports, especially
Makalla. The most important buyer was Bombay,
followed at a considerable distance by Austria, Ger
many, and France. The total export amounted in
value to £79,429. In 1909 and 1910 Jedda exported
small quantities of gum, of which the' values were
£6,333 and £8,333 respectively.
Wax is exported from Aden only. The chief
sources of supply were Massawa and Jibuti, but
these ports are beginning to export direct instead of
through Aden. Germany and France, especially the
tormer, were the chief customers. Since 1914 the
United Kingdom has increased its demand.
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- 'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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