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Kafilas from Bukhara bring yearly 120,000 lamb-skins, camel-hair cloth
tea (from China direct or from Russia); and of the exports from Russia
into Turkistan, much leather (coarse and fine), shagreen, broadcloths silks
satins, muslins, and coloured chintzes, nankeen, and other light cloths loaf
sugar, Russian glass and chinaware, metal trays, cast-iron pots, plain and
unwrought iron, copper, pewter, knives, scissors, locks, spectacles, needles
beads and tinsel, looking-glasses, paper and clamped boxes of all sizes, o-old’
embroidered stuffs, and cochineal.
The trade in the latter article by this route is decreasing j for now Russian
manufactures are had chiefly from the port of Rasht. They are of very
indifferent quality, but extremely cheap, and appear to find ready sale. ^
Prices at Mashhad, January 1881.
Barley
Straw
Grass
Wheat
Rice
Mutton
Beef
Eggs
5 mans per kran.
5| mans per kran.
12£ mans per kran.
3-^ mans per kran.
f man per kran.
f man per kran.
1 to 1|- mans per kran.
40 per kran.
Ghf, _ ... | man per kran.
Cow’s milk ... If mSns per kran.
Potatoes ... 3 to 5 mans per kran.
Firewood ... 8 to 10 mans per kran.
Fowls ... from f kran to If krans,
according to size.
r 4 years old, costs from 16 to 20 krans.
A sheep ... ... j 2 to 3 years old, costs from 8 to 10 krans.
(. 1 year old, costs from 3 to 5 krans.
Donkeys for baggage can he bought for 5 to 10 tumans.
Ponies for baggage can be bought for 6 or 7 tumans.
Horses.—Prices range up to anything for a horse ; but 150 tumans would be a hi-h
price for a first-rate animal. b
Donkeys for riding cost from 12 to 15 tumans ; and the best white riding donkeys may
be bought for from lo to 20 tumans. J J
Camels for baggage are cheap compared with other parts of Persia ; they cost from 10 to
15 tumans.
Camels for riding.—-As much as 50 tumans might be given for a first-rate riding camel.
Mules are not bred here, and it is next to impossible to buy them. The Shiraz prices
range trom 30 to 50 tumans. 1
Prices for sending baggage from Mashhad.
A camel load is 60 mans.
A mule or pony load is 40 mans.
A donkey load is 25 mans.
... ( sen< ^ g 00 ^ 3 to Tihran by camels, mules, or ponies, costs the
Kama Q 4-^ (1 -i r r
Tihran
Yazd
Herat
same,—8 to 9 tumans per 100 mans,
xo Yazd by camels, 6 to 7 tumans per 100 mans.
1° Yazd by mules or ponies, 9 to 11 tumans per 100 mans,
lo llerat by camels, 3 to 4 tumans per 100 mans,
lo Herat by donkeys, 5 to 6 tumans per 100 mans.
A man of Mashhad equals about 6f lbs. English
A kran equals about 9d. English. °
A tuman equals 10 krans.
- (i =4r' ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية *’ **«"*"> «•—lidjMrW taftar,
HASHHAD (DistmojJ-Lat , Long. ; Busy.
A district of Khurasan, wlueh extends from the city of Mashhad north-
west up the valley as far as Kuehan, 48 miles; south, to the Turbat border