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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
the Laurus Cassia), and sandal-wood. The exports from Sira to CHAPTER 
Nagara are blankets, Bangalore cloths, country steel, tobacco, oil, 
boiled butter, or Ghee, buffaloes, and cash to the amount of one half Aug. l— & 
of the imports. 
The imports from Chatrahal consist of ready money for the pur- 
chase of sugar. 
The country near Seringapatam supplies Sira with a great deal of 
grain, and receives back ready money, boiled butter, oil, dry ginger, 
limes, and coco-nuts. 
The black pepper and Betel-nut from Nagara , with some of the 
latter from this country, are sent to Bangalore for the manufactures 
of that place, and for the goods imported at Madras by sea. 
Most of the Betel-nut is disposed of at Gubi, at which place there 
is annually sold about 15,000 Maunds, or about 3,575 hundred 
weight. All this is not the produce of the district of Sira; but is 
collected from several others in the neighbourhood. The Gubi 
merchants allege, that at their fairs more than double this quantity 
Commerce 
with Chatra- 
kal. 
Commerce 
with Seringa- 
patam. 
Commerce 
wi th Banga- 
lore. 
Commerce 
with Gubi. 
is sold. 
The grand article of produce here for exportation is the Copra, Copra , 
or dried kernel of the coco -nut. Many of the merchants make 
advances to the proprietors of gardens. At the time of advance 
the price is fixed, and the farmer has no right to sell his Copra to 
another, and to repay the merchant who made the advances. The 
average price is four Fanams a Maund, or 11 s. o\d. a hundred 
weight. 
The cattle employed in this trade are buffaloes and oxen. The Carriage 
buffaloes of the Nizam's country are the best, and daily carry 12 cattie * 
Maunds off 520 lb. three cosses, or about nine miles. The oxen of 
this country-breed are the best, and daily carry 8 .Maunds, or 213 lb. 
four cosses or twelve md.es. In, order to be able to do this, 
these cattle must be fed o i oil-cake, or on cotton-seed and -straw. 
The Nizam's country, abounding with cotton, wonderfully improves 
the oxen that are bred in this neighbourhood,: An. ox bought here 
Yol. I, 
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