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and her cargo consisted of about 650 tons of timber and planks, besides
^ about 1 ,000 tons of kerosine in cases, sugar, flour, and manufactured goods.
At Bandar 'Abbas she discharged about 5,000 cases of kerosine, at Lingeh
a small quantity of cotton goods, at Bushehr 12,000 cases of kerosine and
100 cases of glassware, at Basrah 16,500 cases -of oil and about £1,500
worth of wood, chiefly beams for building which were intended to compete
with the Jawi ^ood ordinarily imported at Basrah from Singapore. This
time she secured a good return of cargo at Basrah, chiefly of dates in skins
and bags, consigned to the Levant and Constantinople; at Bushehr she
obtained 4,600 bags of tobacco for Bairut, 60 cases of gum-tragacanth for
London and Odessa, some bales of raw cotton for Odessa, and a small
quantity of opium for Alexandria; to these were added at Lingeh 3,500
bags of tobacco for Jiddah and 20 bales of Persian carpets. Passages
booked at Basrah by native passengers for Jiddah, Egypt and Constanti
nople brought in about £230 and over 30 Muhammadan pilgrims were
embarked at Lingeh. It is probable that on this voyage the " Korniloff's "
expenses were more than covered by her earnings, in which case the sub-
sidy, understood to be now fixed at 50,000 roubles for the round trip, re
presented a clear gain to the owners. The cruise was thus not unprofit
able, but an immense amount of time had been wasted in discharging and
collecting cargo.
While the " Korniloff " was making her second voyage in the Gulf
another Russian vessel, having apparently no connection with the Russian
Steam Navigation and Trading Company, was also engaged there. This
was the " Sigrid " from Batoum, an English-built vessel of 1,300 tons
and 16£ feet draught; she was understood to belong to a Company which
owned 13 other similar vessels and received no subsidy, but was reimbursed
by the Russian Government the amount of the dues paid by their ships in
passing through the Suez Canal. The " Sigrid " discharged 18,000 cases
of kerosine oil at Bushehr and 4-5,000 at Basrah. On her return voyage
she obtained about 3,000 tons of grain and general cargo at Basrah at a
low freight, and a small quantity at better terms at Bushehr; she complet
ed her cargo with 620 tons of red oxide for London, which she loaded at
Bu Musa Island. For at least part of her cruise the " Sigrid " appears to
have been chartered by Haji Allana, a merchant of Bombay. An agency
for the Company owning the " Sigrid " was accepted by an Armenian
merchant at Bushehr, but the Gulf was not again visited by any of their
steamers.
The first cruises of the " Korniloff," being of special interest, have been
described in some detail ; but her subsequent voyages and those of the
" Azoff " and " Truvor " which followed her, call for no remarks. The