per month on that particular merchandigar
I have taken these two extremes tow ands pointing out the advantages it affor
the local houses,
all parties enge
to
and we thus see that to
ed in that trade here,
engaged
on
whatever scale, it is a source of considerable
pecuniary gain
in
the shape of saving.
its such Firms as have no share in the
Serves as a
Indian trade the colony merely a pleasanter residence
residence than Canton; They
could
Carry
it had never
on their home trade as well.
been founded
if
The retail trade in Opium
here I estimates at about 250 chests a =
month; A
good deal of this
is goes.
down
unbroken to the West coast and is paid
for in Sugar
and
Sycee, but a proportion
Curious
of it leaves the Colony in the following
The migratory character of our
An année.
population keeps up a constant stream of
communication between this island and those populous districts on the main out of which it was peopled ___tu
ich places
ad
Hwei-shin,
Kursinskin, Sunson, Peonryu, Hienghen
The passage boats ply) ..
easingly, carrying
to
Ana
fro the
shopkeeper, the artizan, the coole,
the adventures, together with those endless small wares which a chinese population. Regnicos. The capital upon which the shopkeeper is trading here is probably borrowed at interest in his native village, and in paying up either the interest or principal, he remits opium instead of some of all the other working
money . the classes as to the
mode
home their savings :
they prefer of sending
; and the same of the
remittances for the small wares alluded
to above _ This
This is by far the most productive.
branch of our local traffic, because it passes
hands from the highest to
through to
so many
to the lowest — The Merchant or the Agent
sells two three or four chests to the broker-
the broken lets these out one.
by one to the retailer and refiner, who boils it down, and
sells the Coolie a pennyworth of prepared
opium