(Copy)
C84460/53
Chinew Secretary's Office,
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:
Hongkong, 15th March, 1853.
Memorandum on the Junk Frade of t
during the year 1852.
in the
of Victoria
According to the monthly Reports furnished
manner described in former Mecmorandums,
the number of Chinees coasting, sessels which visited
Hongkong harbour
during
1852 was 492; and
of Salt Junks 310, importing 173,000 piculs :- Of Stone cargoes exported the Monopolist states he kept no account, as
custom to do
The
previously
had been his
cargoes of the Coasting Junks and were of the usual nature, comprising from their respective Sorts the undermentioned commodities.
boats were
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From the Province of Toh-kien : – Mum, Beans, Camphor, Camphor-wood, Coal, Cotton
cloth, brockery, Dates, Drugs, Lalt Fish, Fried Fruit, Iron-ware, Paper, Rice, Skins, Ying-te
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