"ملف ٤/١ معلومات عامة بخصوص الكويت والمنطقة الداخلية" [و‎‎١‎٦‎٤] (٤٧٤/٣٢٧)

Booms report 4
sail home dirgctly to^the Persian ^ulf (or by as near
direct a route as the v/ind allows) , sometimes one loads
tiles and jars at Mangalore for Mombasa and Zanzibar,
returning with mangrove noles either from the delta of
the Rufiji River, in Tanganyika, or from Larnu in
Kenya Colony.
African traders always load dates at Basra for Mukalla
for orders. At Mukalla they receive discharging orders, and
usually discharge part cargo there, part at Berbera, and
the rest at Aden. Sometimes they take the whole to
^erbera: sometimes they go to Hodeida, or even to Gizan:
but if they are sent to Hodeida, Gizan, or any other
port well in the Red Sea, it is usually impossible for
them to make the voyage to Africa and they then come home
with general cargo^from Aden, or go to Seihut to load
fish-oil, or tramn round the Mahra coast and to Sur (where
there is very little for the Kuweiti to pick up, when
the hungry Suri and poverty-stricken Mahra Bedu are looking
for a livelihood), finally bringing firewood home from
the Batina coast. But usually alii the dates are discharged
by the time the booms reach Aden, and in December (they
leave the Shatt-el-Arab in September) they leave Aden
bound for Zanzibar. They top un along the Hadhramaut coast,
and their cargoes lb ually include about 50 tons of salt
(in bulk) .(rice, sugar, and other foodstuffs to be sold
to Arabs down the Benadir and Swahili coasts, as well
as ghee in kerosene tins, and £» cooking stones and
such things. At Mukalla dnd Shihr, they compete for
passengers; often a boom will have 150 of these. In
the B a yan this year, we carried 130, as far as I could
count. (There never was a -oro-ner passenger list.) With
the "oassengers on board, the shins sail along ihe Arao
coast until they are to windward of Ras Asir, when they
stand towards Africa and, soon picking un that coasL,
continue down it for two or three months, looking in at
whatever ports seem likely to offer profit. They sail
down ith the north-east monsoon, and never sail