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cambrics, long cloths, opium, iron, Sau^ in ex- 

 dmnge^ and ^elivBring the Areka-nut fit one 

 doBm tlie f^l; hmrever^ mmk Ati^d% on 



the ag^reement of price l>etween the oontractino" 

 parties ;it tlie time, utuI tlie nrpntor or los.< de- 

 mand for the European and other goods brougiit 

 Into ikm nmlsM, 



vts an atundaiit supply of fish tm ihe 

 Bslx-iniirket at Ginoham^, (S^sistin^- of very large 

 specimens of Aciinthiirns, or lancct-fisli, Cha'to- 

 dons, Cypriims, i^everal s]K'cies of tlit; Perch 

 tribe, the Barraconta, Shark, as w ell as a nnni' 

 ber of otheyg, m feoto, mi cdoiir ; 



and it appeared; hmi ike collection eidiibited^ 

 tliat abtindanee was taken npon the coast. 



On tlie evening- of tlie *23(1 of Jnh% we sailed 

 from Pedir/' bound for Siiigapore and China, 

 h&iiiiii^ fsb tbo^ix^aiid eight 0f Ar^hi- 

 nut on boar$« The cai^ iftm ymdhm&i fm: 



frvB thousand four hundred and forty Spanish 

 dollars, forty pecnls of iron, thirty kits of 

 Swedish steel, thirty pecuis of lead, and throe 

 pf i^imt* Mfm ib» irm a profit was 

 ^In^ed upm. the mvoice prices of c^nt* 

 upon the lead, 8 H per cent. ; and upoDL;^e steelj 

 48 ]H'r cent. Upon thf itpitim tlicre was, as I 

 have before mentioned, hut very little juoHt ; 

 indeed, the price of a dollar and a-halt per pecul 



