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introductions, and requested the we should assist him im
Carrying
on trade with some of the islands to the Southward of the
Philippins archipelago, naming Sooloo .. Palawan Borneo, and
- others, as flances where, with the necessary facilities, a profitable. "business" could be done. -
a
After
giving
the matter
I
thorough investigation,
decided to assist him in
making
am adventure thither
involving but
as
an
A
small amount, experiment, and im
Consequence we chartered the
German
Brig
Maria Louise
by the mouth bought cargo
to the extent of about $13,000
fartly on Mr Fields and partly
on
our own account,
and cent it down in the Brig, under Mr. Field's charge The Cargo consisted of a little. opium, maumfactured goods, Tobacco - Salt - and Sundries
miscellaneous descriptio
of a
very
With her Field I sent a young
man
our
from
office, his Hodgkins, to investigate the nature and the extent of the trade for the purpose of obtaining
a
more accurate.
and reliable idea of its