Oriental Commerce, Or, The East India Trader's Complete Guide: Containing a Geographical and Nautical Description of the Maritime Parts of India, China, Japan, and Neighbouring Countries ... with an Account of Their Respective Commerce ...Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, 1825 - 586 sivua |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 100
Sivu 2
... merchants , mostly English , are hospitable to strangers . TRADE . The imports from Great Britain , in the year 1821 , were foreign and colonial merchandize , consisting principally of wheat and flour , flax , East India piece - goods ...
... merchants , mostly English , are hospitable to strangers . TRADE . The imports from Great Britain , in the year 1821 , were foreign and colonial merchandize , consisting principally of wheat and flour , flax , East India piece - goods ...
Sivu 18
... Merchants commonly reckon 100 lbs . equal to 102 lbs . avoir- dupois ; but the exact proportion is 123 to 125 . MEASURES . — The Spanish foot is 11 English inches ; it is divided into 12 pulgadas , each 12 lines . The fanega is a ...
... Merchants commonly reckon 100 lbs . equal to 102 lbs . avoir- dupois ; but the exact proportion is 123 to 125 . MEASURES . — The Spanish foot is 11 English inches ; it is divided into 12 pulgadas , each 12 lines . The fanega is a ...
Sivu 19
... merchants as a con- venient medium of remittance from India , are Valparaiso , Coquimbo , and Copiapo on the Chili coast ; Lima , in Peru ; and Acapulco , in Mexico , properly in North America . The unsettled state of the Governments in ...
... merchants as a con- venient medium of remittance from India , are Valparaiso , Coquimbo , and Copiapo on the Chili coast ; Lima , in Peru ; and Acapulco , in Mexico , properly in North America . The unsettled state of the Governments in ...
Sivu 21
... merchants , resident at Santiago . The returns can be made only in bills , specie , or copper . If the last be preferred , the consignee at Santiago writes to his correspondent at Coquimbo , that a ship will call at such a time on the ...
... merchants , resident at Santiago . The returns can be made only in bills , specie , or copper . If the last be preferred , the consignee at Santiago writes to his correspondent at Coquimbo , that a ship will call at such a time on the ...
Sivu 30
... merchants ; nor are fees of any description received by the Officers of Customs , for their own use . The wine - taster charges ( but repays to Government ) 3 rix - dollars as his fee on each pipe of wine exported , and one rix - dollar ...
... merchants ; nor are fees of any description received by the Officers of Customs , for their own use . The wine - taster charges ( but repays to Government ) 3 rix - dollars as his fee on each pipe of wine exported , and one rix - dollar ...
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Oriental Commerce; Or the East India Trader's Complete Guide: Containing a ... William Milburn Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2018 |
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anchor anchorage arrack avoirdupois bales Bengal boats Bombay British Calcutta called camphire candareens Canton Cape carats cardamums cargo carried catties cent charged China Chinese cinnamon coast Cochin-China coco-nuts coins colour Columbo Company's copper cotton Custom-house ditto ditto Dutch duty East India English entrance equal esteemed Europe European exported fanams fathoms feet fish foreign freight gold Government grains Gulph harbour Hind houses imported inches India inhabitants island Judda kinds land latitude leagues longitude mace Madras Malabar Malay manufactured maund merchants miles Mocha natives nutmegs opium pagodas pearls pecul pepper Persia piece-goods pieces port Portuguese principal procured produce PROVISIONS quantity rice river rix-dollars rupees seers ships shore Sicca side silk silver situated smell sold sorts Spanish dollars species stone sugar Sumatra Surat taste town trees vessels weight wood yellow
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Sivu 104 - ... tubercles, varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a large pea, isolated or confluent ; or, secondly, as yellowish patches of irregular outline, slightly elevated, and with but little hardness.
Sivu 565 - ... Spirits or strong Waters the produce of any British Possession in America, not being sweetened Spirits, or Spirits mixed with any article so that the degree of strength thereof cannot be exactly ascertained by such hydrometer...
Sivu 585 - Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army, in the years 1817, 1818, and 1819, with Observations on the System according to which such Operations have usually been conducted in India, and a Statement of the Improvements that appear necessary.
Sivu 517 - Desima, when anything is to be exported or imported, are seated the head and under banjoses, and interpreters, before whose eyes the whole undergoes a strict search. And that the Europeans may not scrape an acquaintance with the searchers, they are changed so often that no opportunity is given them. " This puts a stop to illicit commerce only, but not to private trade, as everybody is at liberty to carry in whatever he can dispose of, or there is a demand for, and even such articles as are not allowed...
Sivu 301 - They are found in such abundance, over many parts of Bengal and the adjoining provinces, as to have afforded to the natives, from time immemorial, an abundant supply of a most durable, coarse, dark coloured silk, commonly called Tusseh silk, which is woven into a kind of cloth called Tusseh doot'hies, much worn by Bramins and other sects of Hindoos.
Sivu 517 - ... are very dangerous to import ; but the Europeans are otherwise suffered to carry in a great number of books for their own use ; and the search was the less strict in this respect, as they looked into a few of them only. Latin, French, Swedish, and German books and manuscripts pass the more easily, as the interpreters do not understand them. Arms, it is true, are not allowed to be carried into the country ; nevertheless, we are as yet suffered to take our swords with us. " The Dutch themselves...
Sivu 518 - ... need of instruction, bear the denomination of apprentices or learners. Formerly the Japanese apprentices were instructed by the Dutch themselves in their language, but now they are taught by the elder interpreters. The apprentices had also, before this, liberty to come to the factory whenever they chose ; but now they are only suffered to come when they are on actual service. The interpreters rise gradually and in rotation to preferments and emoluments, without being employed in any other department....
Sivu 517 - ... nevertheless, we are as yet suffered to take our swords with us. "The Dutch themselves are the occasion of these over-rigorous searches, the strictness of which has been augmented on several different occasions, till it has arrived at its present height. Numerous artifices have been applied to the purpose of bringing goods into the factory by stealth ; and the interpreters, who heretofore had never been searched, used to carry contraband goods by degrees, and in small parcels, to the town, where...
Sivu 302 - Their cocoons are remarkably soft and white, or yellowish ; the filament so exceedingly delicate as to render it impracticable to wind off the silk : it is therefore spun like cotton. The yarn thus manufactured, is wove into a coarse kind of white cloth, of a seemingly loose texture, but of incredible durability, the life of one person being seldom sufficient to wear out a garment made of it ; so that the same piece descends from mother to daughter.