CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 63

Store keeper's Department, being called, statis that the nails sent out in the brown paper, ( supposed to be those drawn in England from box N130) are English nails; that the whole of bor 130 is

English wood, but the lid is pine wood and of a different quality from the sides of the bors; that the stowage wood is Chinese, and of the same sort as,

though longer than, that, usually sold to the ships here for firing by the native bumboats; that the ropes of the two

to genuine

boxes are Manila: hemp, and of box 130 English rope, but not such as is ever used

in

war, as it has no thread through

ships of war,

it; that there is nothing particular in the knots of the ropes of boy 130, they being such

as might have been fastened by any one; and

in the seal

that there is a

great difference holes of the bones, those of the genuine boves having been bored with a centre-bit, while

those

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thase of bon 130 have been cut by a gouge.

Aoan, Compradore, being again

called, states that the marks on the boxes with the exception of the figures,

were made

by means of a tin plate cut for the purpose; so that all the.

e genuine boxes, were, up to the numbers, minutely similar; and that bou 130 has evidently not been marked in the the letters being larger and

same manner,

wider.

22 d. July, 1846.

The Board discussed the

and 7, and

ad adjourned till

foregoing evidence,

tomorrow

23th July, 1846

The Board received and considered.

Nr._ a letter from Assistant Commissary Incent

Goldsmith, in which further valuable

suggestions