804 Tour through parts of Baloochisthan, in QNo. 154. 



The following are the estimated imports to Gwadar for consumption 

 at Mukran, or at the port : — 



Iron, 50 candies, Pepper, 20 candies, 



Powder, 3 ditto, Pedlery, 5,000 rupees, 



Turmerick, 30 ditto, Mashroo, 100 pieces, 



English cloth, 5,000 rupees, Sugar, 100 goonees, 

 Bengal Soosees, 1,000 pieces, Mangroee rice, 3,000 maras from 

 Kandakee, 1,000 pieces, Muscat and Keen ; and in times 



Dates, 5,000 packages, of dearth, rice and juwaree from 



Lead, 100 candies, Sindh. 



Silk Thread, 60 seers, 



Merchandise from Bombay can be sold at 5 per cent, above the ori- 

 ginal cost at 6 months' credit. The trade of Gwadar is monopolized 

 by the native merchants. 



An import duty is levied at the port of 3 per cent, on a Mussel- 

 man's merchandise, and 4 per cent, on that of a Hindoo. This 

 distinction is prevalent throughout the Mahommedan countries west 

 of the Indus. 



The produce of the Gwadar fisheries is taxed from kind ; — that oi 

 other fisheries or importation 3 per cent. On stocking for Muk- 

 ran, a tax is levied on each load of 1 Mahommadee, or " zor." Th< 

 ducat is called surkh or surfc, " red." 



Merchandise to Bombay is charged on each a duty of 1 kuroosh, oi 

 rial, per candy, and a passenger 1 rupee Company's, 5 Mahom- 

 madees. 



The currency is in ducats, rials, Mahommadee and Company's 

 rupees in the following proportion: 1 ducat 28 Mahommadees in 

 copper. 



One Company's rupee is 5 Mahommadees in copper. The weight ol 

 1 Hindoo maund, or £ Musselman's maund, equals 5 Company' 

 seers. 



Wool met this year with a ready sale. An American ship touched 

 here, and purchased 450 rials' worth of wool. 



During my stay at Gwadar, some European sailors, 13 in number, 

 arrived in an open boat; they could not speak a word of any language 

 but English, but from signs, and on referring to native charts, I made 



