1840-47.] ME. riNIflE'S FOUE TEAES IN TINITETELLT. llS 



sliip waiting, and presses lying idle. TTnder such cir- 

 cumstances he delivers liis Cotton to the Agent, who 

 has merely to receive it. The Agent examines the Cot- 

 ton by plucking out a handful and letting the bundle 

 pass. Perhaps from caprice or iU humour, he rejects a 

 " bundle just as good as those he has taken. Then the 

 Chitty gets angry, and orders his people to stop de- 

 Uveriug, as the gentleman wiU. not take the Cotton. 

 The Agent then takes the rejected bundle to induce 

 the Chitty to proceed with the delivery. All, however, 

 depends upon the state of the market. If it is brisk, 

 and the Chitty finds that other Agents are in want of 

 ' Cotton to make remittances with, he stops aU rejection 

 of inferior bundles, by threatening to throw up the 

 contract; and then the Agent, or rather the young 

 man employed by the Agent to receive the Cotton, is 

 compelled to soften his tone, and to entreat the great 

 Chitty to let him have the Cotton, as his employers 

 will find fault with him if he does not get on with the 

 shipment. If, on the contrary, the market is duU, the 

 Chitty is not quite so independent. Some Cotton is 

 rejected in bulk, and finally put on one side. But stiU 

 the Chitty is prepared even for this emergency. With- 

 in a day or two the Cotton is loaded on the bandies, 

 and marched round the town ; and then comes in fresh 

 from the country, and is all taken as a very good arti- 

 cle. The consequence of aU these proeeecfings is, that 

 the English manufacturer will only give a low price for 

 Indian Cotton, because he never knows what he is buy- 

 ing, nor what quaUty of Cotton wiU be found in the 

 bales, nor whether the staple wiU. be dirty or clean. 



Conclusion of the season of 1846-47 : difficulties in 179 

 the way of conducting the ginning operations at 

 Aroopoocottah. — Notwithstanding Mr. Finnie had se- 

 cured a temporary gin-house in good work- mt-. Hnnie's 

 ing order at Aroopoocottah, he had stiU to • ktter. i?th 

 contend, according to his own account, with PaS'.'Eetu'm 

 two great difficulties. 1st, He could not (i857),p.36s. 

 purchase good Cotton from the Eyots at market price. 

 2ndly, The expenses of ginning were so heavy, as to 



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