taken
1841-1886
of
according to the best sources information in my paper, and have them from the Consular Returns of Trade, the vessels cargoes & which have entered themselves as for Hong Kong or which have cleared out for the five ports for that place and port which from their names I have ascertained to be vessels employed in the
coasting trade only. The
goods they
bring here are
goods they
transhipped on their
arrival into other vessels
timber
#
and are
sent to Europe; India &
In addition to these the vessels arriving from Batavia with rice and those with cargo from Manila and the Straits have in general discharged part of their cargoes here, but as I am ignorant of the quantities landed I have only put them down under
the
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