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Small quantities are sent in this way or in the China passage boats but principally the latter.
The Pork now used is almost exclusively Chinese and it is packed either salted, or freed and preserved in pork pot.
The latter is only put up for long voyages.
Roasted meat (See list A) is of two kinds and the cost of the salted kind is about $12 a pound, the fresh kind about $9.15 - that is about five dollars and half worth of salt & water is put in.
Each emigrant should have daily 17/2 oz of rice, 12 oz of Port, beef or fish.
$3 worth of vegetables and pickles should be provided but there is good reason to suspect...