272 TRADE OF SINDH. 



Ceylon, total increase to all of which is Es. 

 11,74,732. The decrease in the ExjDort Trade 

 has been to Bombay, Concan, Cutch, Mauritius, 

 Mekran, and Persian Gulf; the total decrease 

 showing Es. 15,13,292. The items which show 

 an increase in the Export Trade are chiefly 

 Horses, Drugs, and Dyes, excepting Indigo and 

 Munjeet, Grain of all sorts, excepting Wheat. 

 Saltpetre, Oil Seeds, excepting Jinjeely, Sindh 

 Salt, and Cashmere Shawls. During 1857-58 

 the value of the direct Exports from Sindh to 

 England and France was Es. 5,20,368, Avhilst 

 for the year 1858-59, the Exports have amount- 

 ed to Es. 12,74,487, or 139 per cent, in excess 

 of those of the previous year ; to England 129 

 per cent., and to France 10 per cent. Most 

 of the direct shipments to England have 

 been made by Bombay merchants through 

 their agents here, and the same is to be 

 said of the shipments to France. Consign- 

 ments have also been forwarded by local 

 traders on their own account. The increase in 

 Exports to Calcutta is on account of Sindh Salt ; 

 the amount of duty on that shipped by private 

 individuals is estimated at Es. 48,711, and on 

 that on account of the Bengal Government 



