considerable increase, 456 jink's having
imported 345,050 piculs of salt in 10 mouths, while the whole import of 1849 was 335,350 piculs imported in 334 jinks-
The monthly average of general traders
the
same as
has continued nearly
charing the latter 8 months of 1849 : of the first- 4 mouths there was no record, but, in the remainder, 576 junks laden with general cargoes anchored here, while during
the latter 10 months of 1850, there have
been 700 at Victoria with general cargoes, mrving to on from the cast and west coasts of the Canton province, Fuch kien, the islands of Hainan and Frimosa, and Singapore I and Scam.
From this last port a single junk brought Areca mut, Brazil-wood, attaws, pepper, bird's nests, leather and nutinegs.
From Singapore I large vessels the
Jame
cayo
as
above, bird's-nests excepted,
ond with it strugs, otried fish, glasses and
bichs de mar.
rest
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Three from Formosa, coal, sulphur,
rice, potato-flour, planks and skin. The
from various ports of the coactacoching from Tien- tum to Hanan island, piss sheep and poultry, drugs, bark, dried prints, pulse, grain, sweet potatoes, engar, injor candy, cocoa nuts, areca muts, betel leaf,
arecanuts, dried fish, blutter fish, rock-suckers, bicho-de-mar, hams, bacon, pickled
native wine and onanufactured
vegetables, 9884,
tobacco, salt, alum, coal, charcoal, fuel, eulphur, patterns, coarse paper, crockery, cloth,graw-cloth, leather, furs, penreilk,
planks
a
xan iron and iron ware-
Compared with 1849, there has been slight falling off in
the
marine pink
trake of some 4 or 5 vessels a mouth, and
there have been
Mine,
as in 1849, from Tongansins
but it is emperssible to account for this by
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