CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 45

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demand may

be obtained-, morgunte-

here will brave wind and

buy a cargo weather, and a

to

long voyage..

Bance.

we-

veseel

rever had a single resed from Shanghae,

Jah-too, that would.

Ningpo, Amoy,

nor

have made purchases at

people

Hongkong.

on the coast to the west

The

the weet of Canton.

proceed to Macve roads and the

not visited by any

if not

vessel- to buy

Typa

their

vants, and never has

has yet - a single seesl-

from

thence touched here.

Whatever is betwveen Namoa - and

Hongtong, with the exception of Hachong

perhaps where

lately

continually at anchor, such as

13

two latter, they bring camphor boughts at Formosa - and alum, with some

very

Conn La

China ware. The former article is only

occasionally saleable and in many

instances

after having been offered to

many British Merchants, has been taken to Macas to be sold there. The latter has

formed ballast to India, but very often_

from

want

of purchasers, the junks have

to proceed to fanton or Macas. These the two articles, that have yet.

only

are

in

any quantity been brought to this market..

was made by Teacher

great attempt

junks to import tea, but whether it

vessels have been

Kit yes

ura s

/

Troyes, Macyes, Tinghee

and even

Chaougan

and Cheope in Fotkeen, belongs exclusively to the Commercial sphere of this place, and numerous have been the junks came to the settlement. From the

that

two

that the boyes

were

not

= property packed, or the quantity not adapted to our home consumption, it remained_ unsaleable in the hands of the importers,

and was

given

afterwards with very great lose to the Shopkeepers to dispose of it

by

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