Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat: In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4Roberts, Edmund
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Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat: In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4
Roberts, Edmund
Southeast Asia -- Commerce; Southeast Asia -- Description and travel
Pepper, 38,000 peculs, 10 ticals per pecul.
Sugar, 96,000 peculs, 15,000 1st sort, 8 do. do.
60,000 2d do. 7 a. 7½ do. do.
20,000 3d sort, 6 a. 6½ ticals per pcl.
1,000 Preto or
black, 2½ a. 3½ do. do.
Sugar candy, 5,000 peculs, 15 16 do. do.
Tin, 1,600,000 lbs., 1,200 do. 20 22 do. do.
Tobacco, 3,500 do. 100 bundles, 4 ticals.
Benzoin, 100 do. 50 a. 55 peculs.
Cardamom, 73,150 lbs., 550 1st sort, 100 a. 360 a. 380.
do. 2d do. 150 a. 280 300.
3d do. 300 200 220.
Ivory, 40,000 lbs., 300 peculs, 160 a. 180.
Bar-iron, 2,260,000 lbs., 20,000 do. 3½ a. 4.
Kwalahs or iron pans,
60,000, 1st size, 4 ticals per peculs.
2d do. 3 do. do.
3d do. 2½ do. do.
4th do. 2 do. do.
5th do. 2 do. do.
6th do. 1½ do. do.
7th do. 1¼ do. do.
Aguils or eagle-wood, 10 a. 12 do. 1st sort, 400 ticals.
2d and 3d, 250 and 200.
Cotton, 30 a. 40,000 26 clear, 8 in seed.
Swallows’ nest,
(esculent,) 10 a. 12 1st sort, 10,000.
2d do. 6,000.
3d do. 4,000.
Bichos do Mar or Tripang,
Camphire, Malayan,
Wax, yellow, 1,800, do. 55 a. 60.
Gamboge, 250, 6 quantities averaging from 40 to 80
p. p.
Varnish, 500, 50 per pecul.
Salt, 8,000 peculs, 2½ a. 3½ per pecul.
Dried fish, 60,000, 3 a. 4 do. do.
Hog’s lard, 14 or 15 do. do.
Sapan-wood, 200,000, from 1 a. 3½ salings per pec.
Teak-timber, 127,000 logs,
Rose-wood, 200,000 peculs, 3 salings per pecul.
Barks, Mangrove, &c., 200,000 bundles, 6 ticals per 100 bundles.
Leather, Deer, 100,000, 20 a. 25 per 100.
Iron-wood, (ebony) 1,500 peculs, 2½ peculs.
Dried meat, 1,600, 6 per do.
Copper 300, 50 a. 55.
Rhinoceros skins, not ascertained.
Buffalo do. 1,500, 8 a.
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