300 



TRADE. 



These tables show the tonnage and cargoes of the vessels arriving in 

 Santarem for three months in each year. 



Mr. Gouzennes gave me the table for 1843, and to M. Castelnau the 

 table for 1846. He also gave me a letter to M. Chaton, French consul 

 at Para, requesting that gentleman to give me his tables for the last 

 year, (1851 ;) but they had been sent to France. 







Three months 



Three months 







of 1843. 



of 1846. 



Number of crews 



- 



- . 300 



362 



Tonnage - 



• 



647 



1,287 



Fish- 



- arrobas 



- 5,537 



6,402 



Peixe boi - 



U 



75 







Tow - 



a 



430 



478 



Pitch 



u 



64 



933 



Tobacco - 



u 



499 



3,352 



Cocoa - 



u 



- 12,808 



19,940 



Sarsaparilla 



it 



665 



4,836 



Cloves ... 



a 



226 



998 



Guarana - 



a 



94 



457 



Coffee 



u 



369 



512 



Cotton - 



u 



24 



226 



Cumam (Tonka beans) 



u 





47 



Carajuru - 



u 



2 



75 



Castanhas - 



- alquieres 



- 1,206 



3,709 



Farinha - 



u 



- 2,428 



1,384 



Oil of Copaiba - 



pots 



427 



3,056 



Oil of turtle-eggs 



u 



420 



1,628 



Oil of andiroba - 



u 



11 



29 



Mixira - 





170 



316 



Hides - 







664 



Oxen - 





100 



85 



Piassaba rope - 



- inches 





1,970 



I think, but have no means of forming an accurate judgment, that the 

 importations of Santarem have not increased in the same proportion in 

 the years between 1846 and 1852. A few of these articles — such as 

 the cotton, the coffee, a part of the tobacco, and the farinha — were 

 probably consumed in Santarem. The rest were reshipped to Para for 

 consumption there, or for foreign exportation. 



