into Bander Abb[=a]si
averaged about L660,000 per annum, L260,000 (L155,000 British) being for
exports, L400,000 (L340,000 British) imports. Of the 255,000 tons of
shipping which in 1905 entered Bander Abb[=a]si 237,000 were British.

(A. H.-S.)

BANDER LINGAH, or LINGA, a town of Persia on the northern shore of the
Persian Gulf and about 300 m. by sea from Bushire, in 26deg 33' N., 54deg
54' E. Pop. about 10,000. It forms part of the administrative divisions of
the "Persian Gulf ports," whose governor resides at Bushire. The annual
value of the exports and imports from and into Bander Lingah from 1890 to
1905 averaged about L800,000, but nearly half of that amount is represented
by pearls which pass in transit from the fisheries on the Arab coast to
Bombay. Like many other Persian Gulf ports, Bander Lingah was for many
generations a hereditary patrimony of the Sheikh of an Arab tribe, in this
case the Juvasmi tribe, and it was only in 1898 that the Arabs were
expelled from the place by a Persian force. It is the chief port for the
Persian province of Laristan (under Fars), and has a thriving trade with
Bahrein and the Arab coast. It has a British post office, and the steamers
of the British India Company call there weekly. Of the 133,000 tons of
shipping which in 1905 entered the port 104,500 were British.

BANDEROLE (Fr. for a "little banner"), a small flag or streamer carried on
the lance of a knight, or flying from the mast-head of a ship in battle,
&c.; in heraldry, a streamer hanging from beneath the crook of a bishop's
crosier and folding over the staff; in architecture, a band used in
decorative sculpture of the Renaissance period for bearing an inscription,
&c. Bannerol, in its main uses the same as banderole, is the term
especially applied to the square banners carried at the funerals of great
men and placed over the tomb.

BANDICOOT, any animal of the marsupial genus _Perameles_, which is the type
of a family _Peramelidae_. The species, about a dozen in number, are widely
distributed over Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea and several of the
adjacent islands. They are of small size and live entirely on the ground,
making nests of dried leaves, grass and sticks in hollow places and forming
burrows in which they pass a great part of the day. Though feeding largely
on worms and insects they ravage gardens and fields, on which account they
are detested by the colonists. The name is often extended to the family.