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Karáchi Harbour (Kurrachee.) West Coast of India. First edition of this scarce guide for pilots and mariners, with the tipped-in compliments slip of the secretary of the Karachi Port Trust, addressed in manuscript to the Swedish shipping firm K. O. F. Dalman.The guide details the specifications of the harbour, mooring charges, pilotage and towage charges, and the size of recent trade. The four appendices include a July 1892 notice to mariners, a list of steamers to leave port in the preceding year, a name list for the Karachi's chamber of commerce and foreign consuls, and the text of a Sind Gazette article on a recent survey by the port engineer.WorldCat records a copy at the University of Western Australia.

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