they could
could only
of the clearances
look for a moderate proportion
On the other hand,
the thing here, they keep
by discouraging the thing
and maintain the traffic on the least
Then depôts there, save one, are un
they lay
down their
own
prices,
the great bulk of the deliveries
disputed;
and secure)
If the interests of these two,
Houses did not stand in the way,
should certainly have
very
Average)
Considerable
trade with the line of Coast from this to Breaker Point. The bup-chee coasters
would bring us down the Sugars of their
district in abundance, and carry
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our looms. That the thing is not so, and that the Colony does not enjoy this beneficial traffic, I attribute mainly to the opposition:
Raised
by the leading Houses.
The
immediate sea-board districts have in themselves the elements of a productive
Commerce; but there is no encouragement
Opium is sold:
management
is sold in the Straits
given to it. Opium
of Namoa for dollars; the whole country
above and below it for a hundred miles, is supplied from thence, and consequently all the change trade with this Colony
is but
off
The
back
- There is not perhaps in the world a richer source
than that.
opium
and piece goods:
the navigation
this side of the Point, is perfectly easy,
tolerably
thanks to the late expeditions, is now
free from Pirate-risk.
The
smarter smuggling
craft of Namoa would,
bring
us down the
learn by
produce of the upper districts, and
And
one
by and by, to carry back not merely Caneful luxury, but the useful products of
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a favourable
sugar-giving country, stretching away from the north-eastern
boundaries of Quangtung, into the heart of the broken province. In the early part of 1846 I visited
every point upon the lower sea-coast from Macao Bay to Amoy,
making a great part of the journey overland,
And
everywhere found the staple growth of the district
to be sugar; I saw no
difficulty that occurs in the tray of Sugar
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