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best of my recollection, to the value of about two hundred 
and twenty thousand ticals of flowered silver, equal to 
about two hundred and seventy-five thousand sicca rupees. 
Q. What quantity of teak timber did you export during 
the same period?— A. I exported teak timber, in all, to 
the extent of about five thousand four hundred tons. Of 
this, one or two cargoes were sent to Bombay, one to Java, 
and all the rest to Calcutta. 
Q. What other articles did you export besides teak ?— 
A. Chinese hurtal, or orpiment, Chinese raw silk, stick-lac, 
terra-japonica, and horses. 
Q. Are you of opinion that the trade of piece-goods in 
the Burman dominions is capable of much extension ?— A . 
Yes ; very great extension. 
Q. Do you know any thing regarding the inland trade 
carried on between the Burman dominions and China ?•— 
A. Yes ; I made inquiry into the nature of it, and se¬ 
veral times visited the Chinese camp or fair at Maday, 
which is distant about twelve miles from Ava, in a north¬ 
easterly direction. 
Q. What articles do the Chinese import, and what do 
they export?— A. Their importations consist of silk, hur¬ 
tal, vermillion, gold, copper, quicksilver, Chinese spirits, 
tea, hams, dry and a few fresh fruits, fans, umbrellas, 
shoes, and sundry wearing articles. They export little 
else than cotton. 
Q. Is the importation of silk considerable ?— A. It forms 
by far the largest article of import, and is very consi¬ 
derable. Upon inquiry at the Custom House of Maday, 
I learned there were two thousand seven hundred bundles 
of silk, which, at the rate of a tithe, had been collected as 
duties. This, supposing it, as I believe it was, one year’ s 
collection, would make the imports twenty-seven thousand 
