CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 47

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commodities in our

charge,

20

that it

tt to obtain manufactures

as

is very difficult. or teas in large quantities. But - a starting point: Hongtong will ever hold- a very high- place, though far inferior: to Chuan....

We should also moortion the

-fisheries carried on by the...

ontensive fisheries

inhabitants of Stanley and Aberdeen which employ a goodly number of boats

As no written account. however has been Nept, it would be

very difficult to give

the number of the smacks and still- plese of their produce.

On the whole we must live_

in

hopes,

of things

that a more

propitious state

will take place, and that bonghong.

at least in some measure will answer-

expectations of the founder.

the

(True (spy)

Prederich W. Bruce

(signed) Charles Getzlaff, Chinese Secretary

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