MOCHA 
GUM ARABIC. 
15,000 bahars of 320 lbs. each, at 16 dollars per bahar, are 
240,000 ds. at 4^. 6d. each - - - £; 54^000 0 0 
Expenses of unpacking, repacking, sorting, and delivery, 
at 4 per cent. - - - - 2,l6o 0 0 
Agency 5 per cent. - - - q^jqq qo 
Duties to the Sultaun of Aden, 3 per cent. - . j q^q q q 
Cost on board at Aden £. 60,4S0 0 0 
Freight on 3000 tons, at 15/. per ton. - _ 45,000 0 0 
Insurance on 67,200/, at 10/. per cent, - . 6 720 0 0 
Policy duty on ditto, at ^per cent. - - 1^3 q q 
Interest of money on actual disbursements at Aden'\ 
9 months on the sum of 60,480/. at the rate of five ( 2,268 0 0 
per cent. - - - . j 
Duty on 42,857 cwt. at 4*. 9,d, per cwt. 27| per ct. 
and 85. 3fi?. per cent - - . 12 127 18 6 
Landing charges, housing, 8cc. 8cc. 1 per cent. - 604 16 0 
Cost in the warehouse at London £.127,368 14 6 
Said 15,000 bahars or 42,857 cwt. if ~ 
sold here at the low price of 10/. 
per cwt. would produce - j£'.428,570 0 0 
Or - - 28 11 5 per bahar. 
Whereas the cost is only about 8 9 9 per bahar 
Which leaves a profit of £.20 1 8 per bahar. 
In the above estimate I have taken the price of gum arable, as it was 
in the beginning of September 1808, when the continental markets were 
shut. It has frequently been sold in London at 30/. per cwt. 
