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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [104] (119/148)
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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[No. 90
104 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
of dates are exported from El-Ala and Medina, but no
statistics are available. The goods from these localities
aie small in quantity, but of excellent quality.
Salt is now exported from Aden only; the great bulk
n • 5 X 7 P - 0rt g0es to India ' and a little to Zanzibar.
Dried limes, of an average annual value of £5,000
are exported chiefly to Persia, Turkey, and India
Muscat's export of dried fish declined considerably
m 1910 and 1911, owing to the poor catch in the sur-
^ 0 Q U nAA ng w : aters; in 1912 ^ rose fr om £3,800 to nearly
t ' owmg mamlv to good management by an
Indian firm. No statistics are available for the con
siderable trade in dried fish carried on between the
seaports of the Arabian and Persian Gulfs and the
interior.
There is a very small export of wool from Jedda
f3 S 000 erage 6 in 1908 ' 1909 and 1910 fel1 below
Ambergris is collected and exported at Shughra.
[o) Article of purely African origin. —The only
export m this category is ivory. The value imported
was greatly decreasing before 1914, since Jibuti, the
cliiet place of ongm, was exporting more and more
fil^TT •! 1S j e ?. d ^ -^den. The chief customers were
the United Kingdom, Bombay, and the United States.
-n n 1 n . e United Kingdom took very little
and Bombay a considerably larger quantity.
(b) Imports
The great majority of the imports are received at
Aden, and are divided into twoi classes :
■ . Tho ® e wll ich go to supply the needs of Arabia
tho ^ 1 T 1 i aJld ShipS CalIin S there . ail d also
oxnnrtfrf 0 t S \Yu tr a ns - shi PPed at Aden and re
exported to supply the needs of the adjacent African
countries. Most of those destined for Arabia are also
/of^ lpped tos " la " , ' r Arabian ports
shiWT,rL W w 1Ch are ' v ^ ! frora Afric a for trans-
I t to Europe, America, &c. These are not
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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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