CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6] — Page 251

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

in

most

manufactures thus oblamed The Salt Trade is the

flomething of all the branches, and entirely in the hands of the Natives.

hether

The people that bring it

Taechoo, From Jaraber,

Conne

me

Hacking, and Tamshup, the neighbourhood of which places, there are extensive flats, often overflowed

the Sea, and useless for

by

all other purposes, exxrept to

collect

tw

frans

the Salt by

the evaporation of the brine which has been left: As t

es

217

As it is, when bribed, much cheaper

than the salt prod

du Is

in the

interior, (and moreover not subject to

it finds at Hey

Hory Kong

the gabelle, it finds

a

vody, sales, for salting fish for tatting it illegally op

Canton

up

to

Next to it the stove hade,

is deserving

err

attention.

The

only

produce of Hay Kory for exportation

ts

from ite

and though as rey emtumplitin

hands, Anticle, still it employs mang

and

some

a queat punler of Boats each about 70-100 Nous, Capital.

lefp

These

are seldom

than a hundred of

the

abse

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