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We have not as yet any prospect of securing a large profit. HongKong possesses great facilities, all its dreadvantages notwithstanding. Though situated on the edge of the Empire, many junks on their passage to the various southern ports pass here. Auctions being of frequent occurrence, many articles are sold at a reduced rate, from what they would fetch in other places, and there are a number of small dealers, who constantly speculate in such transactions, and sell a great deal to these vessels. Thus there has existed for a long while a small trade as far as a single large concern is concerned; but when the whole is summed up, without even the knowledge of merchants, and beneath the notice of our great houses. This is still carried on with great spirit, and should the percentage on auctions be taken off, would likely grow more brisk. Long before a junk from Canton, on her way up to the Northern ports, arrives here, orders are given to brokers to attend the sales and provide the Cargo, and there is always a probability that the purchases will be cheaper than at Canton. The boats which come from the neighboring cities do likewise much business in this way, and frequently invest the returns of the goods sold at this place in manufactures obtained here.
The salt trade is the most flourishing of all the branches in the harbour, and is entirely in the hands of the natives. The people that bring it are from the neighboring districts of Tamshuy, Huchong, and Ksheey, and on the neighbourhood of ..., which places there are extensive flats often overflowed by the sea, and useless for all other purposes except to collect in pans the salt by the evaporation of the brine which has been ...
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C.O./133
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO ] BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-| ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
PUBLIC
RECORD OFFICE. LONDON
conver
prospect yet of Securing a large profit.
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occurrence, many articles are
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