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numbers deeply laden – remain here some

days

out

کرام کے

Go

if to feel the market, and,

as deep as

they

d go

Came, merely shipping

few Chests of Opium_

at other o.

times they sell everything here __ invest

the proceeds in Opium

and a

few piece

d go out in ballast__ithere

goods, and go

في كم

nothing settled or

settled or regular about the

trade.

No

which the

fixed demand_

nothing upon

o general broker here Can it

calculate so that he might lay himself

out to have the very stuffs they to and ready for them by a given

times.

Under these

arcumstances I cannot pentine to make

an estimate of its value or extent

As a Whaling Station

کی ہے

-Hongkong

Exficcted by

کراچی کے

some to take

prominent position _ I do not chink

it will.

The influx of so many of the

southern whalers into this Port in 1848

and: 1849 appears to me to have

frous temporary

Causes-

They

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avisen

Could not

resect to the Sandwich alslands or

any

of the Ports the Pacific, without the

On

certainty of losing their creams. to the gold countrys up here to refit, though.

their

to ay —

the

میم سے 22 ہے

My desertion.

: therefore came

so much out of

may perhaps look for some of the homeward bound whaleus. from the Coasts of Corea and Japan to touch here but for mererefilling

d's in

think it likely they will be foun stores and supplies of all kinds at

Shanghaw, without Coming

Moosung

and

so much further to the Southward for them

I should observe however that

those on the spot who.

are în qa

Ingaged

in

and understand this trade, differ fromi

1.

my opinion, and maintain that this will be the Port of refit and sale of the stock on board _ for two peasons __

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and

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