Price in Coconuts. Nickel-silver soup-ladle 500 pairs. " long spoon 500 " " table spoon and fork 500 " " dessert spoon and fork 300 " " tea spoon and small fork 120 " " mustard spoon 200 " Tumblers 20-40 pairs, according to size. Decanters 60-80 " " " China plates 40-80 " " " " bowls 40-80 " " " Enamelled plates 40-80 " " " " cups 40-80 " " " Matches, packet of 12 boxes 24 pairs. Needles, 1 dozen 12 " Thread, 1 dozen balls 12 " Chinese tobacco, 1 packet 40 " Tobacco, 1 bundle 100 " Red cloth, 1 piece 1200 " " 1 piece (Turkey) 1600 " White calico, 1 piece 800 " Chinese black cloth, 1 piece 600 " Madras handkerchiefs, 1 piece 800-2000 pairs. Fancy coloured chintz and _saris_ -- " Bombay handkerchiefs -- Rice (1 bag of 2 maunds, Calcutta) 300-500 pairs. " (1 bag of 3 maunds, Burma) 500-600 " _Chattis_ and pots 10-40 " American knives 80-120 " " " clasp 20-60 " Burmese _dáos_ 40-200 " Table knives 40-160 " Two-anna pieces 8 " Rupee 30-50 " Wooden and tin clothes-boxes, looking-glasses, sugar, camphor, Epsom salts, Eno's fruit salt, turpentine, castor oil, cabin biscuits, etc. APPENDIX J PRESENTS AND BARTER Articles found to be in demand during the cruise of the _Terrapin_:-- ANDAMANS-- Red cotton (_salu_), clay pipes, leaf tobacco, matches, rice, sugar, axe-heads, _parangs_, iron wire and scraps, files, long nails. NICOBARS--
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