Chapter XXX: Appendix: X

RETURN OF ARTICLES EXPORTED FROM INDIA TO KHORASSAN _VIA_ THE
SEISTAN ROUTE DURING THE PERIOD MARCH 21, 1903, TO MARCH 20, 1904

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Value. 1903-04.
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Articles. Khorassan and Seistan. Khorassan only.
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1900-01.1901-02.1902-03. Quantity. Value.
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£ £ £ Lbs. £
Camels -- -- 246 -- --
Candles -- 115 19 -- --
Drugs 9 150 45 -- --
Dyes -- 32 21 -- --
Earthenware and crockery -- 83 35 1,750 37
Fruits, dried 2 -- 389 -- --
Glassware -- 1,508 34 -- --
Indigo 1,825 8,226 3,575 47,097 5,531
Iron and brass in bars
and sheets -- 96 3 1,120 64[48]
Leather work -- -- -- 3,250 409
Machinery -- -- 121 -- --
Mercery, &c. -- 2,487 840 3,350 2 9[49]
Provisions, preserved -- 113 69 -- --
Rice -- -- 102 -- --
Skins 89 195 721 10,925 1,463[50]
Spices -- 556 183 7,345 236
Sugar -- 64 131 -- --
Tea -- 9,011 434 79,579 4,134[51]
Thread (cotton) and yarn -- 2 101 6,500 818
Tissues--
Cotton -- 4,427 3,281 -- --
Silk -- 155 -- -- --
Woollen -- 206 109 -- --
Tobacco -- 83 109 840 74[52]
Wearing apparel -- 245 464 -- --
Wines -- -- -- 728 49
Miscellaneous -- 148 71 227 26
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Total £1,925 £27,902 £11,103 £13,060
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[48] Entirely brass sheets used for manufacturing tea-urns.

[49] Chiefly palm-leaf fans.

[50] Largely fox-skins, which are mostly re-exported to
Russia.

[51] Of this, £517 worth was green tea and the rest black.

[52] Entirely snuff.