Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia [‎106r] (211/252)

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leave, to be allowed to travel to India by the Nushki route. I told him that the
question would have to be settled between his Foreign Office and mine.
4 * ^r. Miller left here suddenly at midday. He is said to have gone to
Sekohe to attend a patient. He left a man seriously ill in his hospital here and
shortly after his departure the man died. The relations of the dead man are
now freely denouncing Dr. Miller.
5 . Mons. Spinella dined with me in the evening. The Russian Vice-Consu
late were unable to come owing to Mr. Miller’s indisposition and the absence
of Dr. Miller.
6. The weather during the past fortnight has been abnormally hot.
Trade News.
Messrs. Mahomad Ali Brothers’ Agent has received a large consignment
of miscellaneous goods, most of which are destined for Meshed and a small pro
portion for Birjand. . 1 he Agent, Seth Suleiman, proposes going to Meshed him
self in a few weeks time to open a large shop there. Camels are still very scarce
in Birjand, and there is great difficulty in obtaining through transport to Quetta,
the local camel-men refusing to go beyond Seistan. 1 have managed to send a
few of the Quetta camels, recently arrived, to Birjand. Messrs. Mahomad Ali’s
Agent in Birjand informs me that a caravan of 80 camels with caraway seeds,
Kandil, etc., has already left Birjand, but that other camels will have to be
engaged here for the onward journey to Quetta.
I hear from Birjand that the traders there are very pleased with the
idea of the opening up of the new route via the Palang Koh—a report on
which I submitted with my last diary. The Quetta and Birjandi camels cannot
stand the Seistan fly and grass, and the new route should therefore prove
a boon to them at this time of the year.
In a conversation which I had recently with the Agent of the Muawin-ut-
Tajar at Meshed, Mahomad Akbar Khan, he told me that he had received
orders some time ago to select and send to Meshed the names of the largest
villages in Seistan, as the Muawin-ut-Tajar at Meshed was in treaty with the
Shah for the purchase of them. The Agent informed me that he had sent the
names of 24 villages to Meshed. He told me that there was a rumour here
that many enquiries were being made in Teheran and Meshed just at present
about the revenue and limits of Seistan, and that one Mirza Mahomad Hussain,
who some years previously was Mustaufi in Seistan, but was now in Meshed,
could furnish the Meshed Government with as much information as they required
about the place.
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NASRATABAD;
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The 15th May 1901. J
R. A. E. BENN, Major,
His Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul
for Seistan and Kain.
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