China. \ 



ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



405 



JUNKS. 



Japan**** »»*,,.***** — vx» 1 1 ) 



Philippines****** «*^~~*~~ ****** , m 15 



Sooloo Islands *** , ****** „ 4 



Celebes — 2 



Moluccas .™ 7 



Borneo** ** 11 



Sumatra „ * s *********** ]() 



Singapore, and other places in the Straits of Malacca 6 



E. Coast of the Malayan Peninsula ************** 0 



S»am „ 120 



Coch in-China and Cambodia ** GO 



Tonquin *i ***************** **** 34 



Total of junks annually 294 



Tiie tonnage of these vessels will probably not be overrated at from 00 

 to 100,000 tons. 



China is to the native of the further East what Great Britain is to all 

 America, and to many of the nations of the Continent of Europe. She fur- 

 nishes everywhere teas, coarse pottery, umbrellas, fans, shoes, and sacrificial 

 paper. To the Tonquinese and Cochin-Chinese, wrought satins and gauzes. 

 To the Siamese, crapes, mirrors, and ornaments for their temples. To the 

 Malayan tribes, raw silk. The Chinese Colonists, placed under favourable 

 circumstances, and certain of the countries to which they emigrated, have 

 been able to equal or surpass the industry of the mother country. It is 

 thus that in Java, the Philippines, and Siam, they manufacture sugar ; in 

 Siam, iron and iron utensils, which, within the last twelve years, have super- 

 seded those of China ; and that in Borneo, and in the Malayan Peninsula, 

 they have wrought mines of gold and tin, much superior in productiveness 

 to those of their own country. 



The Chinese receive from Japan chiefly fine copper and camphire ; from 

 the Philippines, Sooloos, Moluccas, and Celebes, tortoise-shell, mothcr-o'pearl 

 shells, beech de mer, and esculent nests ; from Java, many of the commodities 

 now enumerated, with some tin, cotton, and spices ; from the Malay 

 countries, similar articles, witli timber, barks, scented wood, tin, Malayan 

 camphire, pepper, opium, and some European commodities. Siam aflbrds 

 by far the most extensive catalogue, such as tin, pepper, gamboge, carda- 

 mums, perfumed woods, fancy woods, dye woods, hides, horns, bones, 

 ivory, feathers, &c. ; from Coehin-China, Cambodia, and Tonquin, nearly 

 the same articles, with the exception of tin and pepper ; but besides these, 



