'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎61] (226/524)

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Persia*—that it should further he able to compete with trade coming
along any of the lines above enumerated to Ispahan, Teheran, and
Meshed; and then that it should flow along the Tabreez line until
overpowered hy the countercurrents of the Russian and Turkish
Armenian lines. Bunder Ahhass would naturally absorb also any
little trade that might be needed for 'Western Mekran.
92. I think secondly that trade, without smuggling at Lingah,
should command the immediate neighbourhood of Lar, and the adjacent
coast line.
93. Thirdly, that trade landed at Bushire should command those
districts below the passes, and also the market of Shiraz and the
province of Pars in general. It might compete with other routes as
far North as Ispahan, but not I think at Teheran. Finally, it might
be able to throw a sprinkling of goods towards Yezd.
94. The advantages of Bunder Abbass as a port for the supply of
the markets under notice, may be compared with those of Bushire as
follows:—
95. Bunder Abbass is less interfered wdth by authority. The dues
are more moderate, and are levied without needless delay or injury to
goods, absence of octroi, no subsequent governmental demand, unless
at Yezd, where it is moderate, readily levied, and wdience trade moves
on direct to the capital; (while trade at Bushire sustains en route not
only octroi, but a heavy demand and delay at Shiraz, and a third de
mand at Ispahan ;) an easier and more level road ; an abundant supply
of camels instead of a limited supply of mules—each camel carry
ing 450 lbs. against a mule’s 340 lbs. and costing one-third less ;
avoidance of delay and risk incident to sea passage of the Gulf against
the prevailing Nor-Westers.
96. The disadvantages of Bunder Abbass are—
* The principal merchants at Yezd are Guehres, also some Hindoos, and a few
Ispahanees. The Hindoos are from Mooltan. It is remarkable, that on the Herat
and Bokhara line the Indian traders come from Shikarpoor principally. Then to
wards South Persia from Mooltan. At Zanzibar they are principally from Kutch
and that neighbourhood. At Bushire there is not a single Banyan Merchant of Indian extraction. . The fact is, a
Banyan Merchant of Indian extraction. will stand any tyranny, any misery, anything you please, except 'perma
nent loss of profits ; when this last calamity arrives, he goes away, as he has done
from Bushire.