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REMARKS ON THE TRIBES, & e .
Treaty in and out at 5 per cent- without further inland demand. Bu*
Native trade loses on the import as compared with ours, and perl *
in some articles gains on the export; e. cj, on exportation of corn. Twice
since I arrived in the Gulf, now four months ago, the export of corn
has been interdicted, and an English barque, for which corn had
been stored when no prohibition existed, and which for the ladino’ 0 f
this corn had foregone a cargo of dates at Busreh, was obliged a few
weeks past to purchase stone ballast at Bushire, and proceed in ballast
to England, owing to the sudden local interdict on corn. In one instance
the Governor relaxed the interdict out of friendly feeling towards me
I am sensible of the kindness. But trade cannot thrive under consi
derations of personality or arbitrary interference. A British merchant
assured me that the prosperity of English trade at Bushire hinged
much on the terms subsisting between the Resident and the Persian
authorities. Again, a flight of locusts or absence of rain is sufficient
cause for a sudden Cora Law. Douceurs, &c. are said to be almost
essential to the conduct of trade at all. The Governments of countries
are probably as good as the governed deserve. But it is none the less
true, that among the principal difficulties in the development of the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. trade, must be numbered that resulting from the action of
Governmental authority. It is just however to add, that since the
foregoing was written, the Shah has disapproved his Governor’s in
terdict.
58. Some few years ago, 6 to 7 square-rigged vessels came from
ami tins annually m ballast and ran hack corn. This trade has
ceased, or turned towards Kurrachee, owing, as I am assured, to the
vexations it suffered in the Gulf.
considellf COtt r ! rade , at BuShh ' e IlaS > as Osewhere, received a
maunds f? " American Civil W ar. 60,000 Tabreez
the co ' 4 bS ' eaC 1 haV6 beeU slll PP ed > and i(; is said that during
marl et P • SeaS ° nten ^ qUantit y be thrown on the
f t' , nces To S0 k 18 * 1 ’ that i(; would have p aid to briu g Cotton
SThhe p’ S - me 2 ° r 13 hUndred miles ’ on ™les, and export it at
and South ^Tf T ^° W C ° tt0n fr0m Tabreez West to Meshed East,
These latr r f ^ fields of Reshi ^ fo- miles from Bushire.
sowiii"' and fll. 11 ™]!- 8 ° 0d cro P s ’ llnt ii changes in taxation stopped the
sowing, and the cultivators decreased in numbers •