commodities in our
charge,
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that it
tt to obtain manufactures
as
is very difficult. or teas in large quantities. But - a starting point: Hongtong will ever hold- a very high- place, though far inferior: to Chuan....
We should also moortion the
-fisheries carried on by the...
ontensive fisheries
inhabitants of Stanley and Aberdeen which employ a goodly number of boats
As no written account. however has been Nept, it would be
very difficult to give
the number of the smacks and still- plese of their produce.
On the whole we must live_
in
hopes,
of things
that a more
propitious state
will take place, and that bonghong.
at least in some measure will answer-
expectations of the founder.
the
(True (spy)
Prederich W. Bruce
(signed) Charles Getzlaff, Chinese Secretary
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