Admiralty
in all the open Spaces exposed
best
to the air in accordance with The custom peculiar to the people of the province of Chettiary The period of my arrival (it being
the Commencement of the nineteenth New year) prevented my obtaining as much
information as I could have wished on the subject of
trade, nor did the
Mandarins, who were
very busy with this complimentary
interchanging of visits that for all other Classes experienced the greatest civility and attention, nor did the apparition of European costume occasion here
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as much curiosity as I had been led to suppose had been the Case – very few trading Vessels
Junks or Junks, and those of the smallest
Class, with the exception of a few,
were in the harbour,
the Chinese, and the
people of Macao, &c. inferred
that trade was
confined to the Coast
and the immediate neighbourhood.
The imports by them consist
of piece goods, raw silk, &c.
and
Goods brought principally
from Amoy, Fokien, Ningpo &c.;
the exports
are tallow
Cotton, Cotton Yarn, &c.
Fine Goods are also brought overland from Szechuen via
AGENT
Board
of Trade
Treasury