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Afghanistan

Chapter 50: APPENDIX X
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The author provides a detailed contemporary survey combining historical overview with firsthand travel observation of the country’s geography, regions, and population. Chapters describe urban centres and rural districts, tribal structures, social and religious customs, and administrative practices, while assessing frontier and boundary concerns and relations with neighbouring powers. Attention is given to economic resources, trade routes, and natural history, supported by illustrations, maps, and synthesized official material. The result is an informative, largely descriptive account intended to convey both practical travel knowledge and a picture of prevailing political and social conditions.

APPENDIX X

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

Articles. Value. 1903-04.
Khorassan and Seistan. Khorassan only.
1900-01. 1901-02. 1902-03. Quantity. Value.
£ £ £ 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
Woolen 206 109
Tobacco 83 109 840 74[52]
Wearing apparel 245 464
Wines 728 49
Miscellaneous 148 71 227 26
Total £1,925 £27,902 £11,103 £13,060

[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.