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ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



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rice, sandal-ivood, stick-lac, sapan-nood, sugar, sugar-candy, steel, raw- 

 silk, shawls, saltpetre, tin, tutenague, turmeric, tobacco, thread, and 

 vermilion. The demand for British manufactures, and other European 

 articles, is very trilling. Besides coffee, there are few articles procured at 

 Judda. 



Duties and Presents — Piece-goods pay 8 per cent, customs in specie, 

 and all other goods are valued by the custom-house officers ; and whatever 

 value they put on them, they will never abate. As all piece-goods pay in 

 specie, it is proper to pack even hundreds in every bale; or thus, 100 pieces, 

 125, t50 9 175, 200, &c. ; for whatever odd pieces the officers find in a bale, 

 they value at an unreasonable rate; neither is this to be remedied but by the 

 Bashaw, to whom you can seldom obtain admission for that purpose. 



Considerable presents are necessary here, both in piece-goods and money. 

 The following is a list of presents given to the Bashaw and his officers, with 

 the different assortment of goods, and the species they are to consist of. 



Cruse. 



Selecta Aga 5pieccs,value50 



Xeriff' 



Cruse. 

 .42 pieces, value .500 

 -t^ ditto 500 





.si 



ditto 







.21 



ditto 



250 



Eusaphagcr Visier. 



.12 



ditto 



130 







ditto 



140 



Aboosuid CafFas . 



.13 



ditto 



140 







ditto 



130 



Visier of Mecca . 



.13 



ditto 



160 







ditto 



140 





.13 



ditto 



140 



Shelmnda Mecca . 



,. a 



ditto 



80 



Jockadar 5 



Eusoph kin Judda £ 



Surbashey, or Cutual... 3 



Obadashey Aznban 3 



Obadashey Janizary ... 3 

 Bashaw's custom porter* 3 



Xeriffs ditto 3 



Four Peons at the gate 12 



Pilot 6 



Shroff. 8 



ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 



40 



60 

 25 

 25 

 25 

 25 

 25 

 70 

 30 

 85 



Total Pieces 281 Value 3,01)0 



The above presents are to be made out of such goods as are in your 

 cargo, of fine, middling, and coarse. The Bashaw's and XerifTs presents 

 are 24 pieces each, as by the foregoing list; and these to consist of two 

 pieces of every assortment of the finest and middling goods ; and should a 

 few pieces be wanting, you are to make up the deficiency out of the ordinary 

 assortments. The Uashaw Kia and the XerifF Visier are to have 21 pieces 

 each, as by the list, and that, one piece of each assortment as the liashaw 

 and Xeriff have ; the rest of the officers 1 presents are to be made out of the 

 middling and ordinary assortments ; and care must be taken that the quan- 

 tity of pieces given to each person, may be sorted, so that the valuation by 

 the list may not be exceeded. The presents in money are to the petty 

 officers after visiting the Bashaw, and amount in the whole to 280 Judda cruse. 



