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Q. Do you know what is the usual price of this cotton ? 
— A. Between fifty and sixty ticals of flowered silver per 
hundred viss, or from seventeen to eighteen sicca rupees 
per maund. 
Q. Have you any idea of the general amount in value of 
the whole Chinese trade ?— A. Nothing beyond what can be 
collected from the amount of the silk and cotton, which are 
the principal articles of importation and exportation. 
Q. What number of Chinese do you suppose compose 
the yearly caravan?— A. In my opinion, the number of 
Chinese is very small ; I should think some few hundreds ; 
as far as I can recollect, one man to about thirty horses or 
mules, both of which are numerous. 
(Signed) H. Gouger. 
No. XL 
Note to page 2 75 . 
The term used by the Budd’hists to express the highest 
state of felicity after death, and which is corrupted by the 
Burmese into “ nibban,” and by the Siamese into “ nir- 
pan,” is, in the original Sanscrit, correctly written nirvanfi. 
The Christian Missionaries, and other popular writers, 
have incorrectly translated it “ annihilation;” an expression 
which throws an unmerited share of obloquy on the wor¬ 
ship of Budd’ha. Mr. Colebrooke, in an acute and learned 
dissertation on the Philosophy of Indian Sectaries, has, for 
the first time, given its true explanation in the following 
passages :— 66 But the term which the Baudd’has, as well 
as Jainas, more particularly afiect, and which, however, is 
also used by the rest, is nirvanfi, profound calm. In its 
ordinary acceptation as an adjective, it signifies extinct, 
