Chapter XXVIII: Appendix (2)

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Names. |Annual quantity.|Prices in ticals. |Duties. |Revenues.
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Paddy and rice |1,696,424 coyans| | | Ticals.
| of 23 picul |1st sort 16 ticals|} |
„ „ | „ „ |2d „ 14 „ |} | 862,358
„ „ | „ „ |3d „ 12 „ |} |
Orchards | 68,235 in No. | | | 545,880
Vegetables | 4,251 | | | 17,800
Samsoo or spirit| | | |
shops | Bang-kok | | | 104,900
„ „ | Sieuthaja | | | 16,000
„ „ | Bangxang | | | 8,000
„ „ | Suraburi | | | 4,000
„ „ | Krungtaphan | | | 4,000
Bazars | Bang-kok | | | 39,200
„ | Sieuthaja | | | 12,800
„ | Suraburi | | | 1,600
„ | Bangxang | | | 1,600
Duty on floating| | | |
houses | | | | 36,000
Chinese gambling| | | | 64,000
Siamese, ditto | | | | 58,000
Teak wood | 127,000 trees | | | 56,000
Sapan wood | 200,000 piculs |1st sort 3½ to 3 |} |
„ „ | „ „ |2d „ 2½ to 2 |} | 84,000
„ „ | „ „ |3d „ 1½ to 1 |} |
Cocoanut oil | 600,000 „ | 7½ to 8 |1¼ | 56,000
| | |to 1½ |
Sugar, 1st | 10,000 „ | 8½ to 9 } | |
„ 2d | 60,000 „ | 7 to 7½ } | |
„ 3d | 20,000 „ | 6 to 6½ } |1½ | 40,000
„ black | 1,000 „ | 2½ to 3 } | |
„ candy | 5,000 „ | 16 to 17 } |½ |
Jaggery | 150,000 jars | 18 tcls. p. 100 | |
| | jrs.|2 tcls | 8,000
Salt | 8,000 coyans | 2½ to 3 |6 | 32,000
Pepper | 38,000 piculs | 10 to 11 |1½ | 23,200
Bastard | | | |
cardamums | 4,000 „ | 32 to 40 |6 tcls | 16,000
Cardamums | 1st. 100 „ | 360 to 380 } | „ |
„ | 2d. 150 „ | 280 to 300 } |16 „ | 5,400
„ | 3d. 300 „ | 200 to 220 } | „ |
Sticlac | 8,000 „ | 12 13 14 |1¼ | 9,500
Tin | 1,200 „ | 24 26 28 |3 tcls | 18,200
Iron | 20,000 „ | 4 5 6 | „ | 54,000
Ivory | 300 „ | 160 170 180 |12 ditto | 2,500
Gamboge | 1st 50 to 60 | 75 to 80 } | |
„ | 2d 150 „ | 55 to 60 } |6 ditto | 1,200
„ | 3d 50 „ | 40 to 45 } | |
Rhinoceros horns| 50 to 60 | 800 per picul |32 per |
| | | picul| 1,600
Benjamin | 100 „ | 50 to 55 | | 400
Bird’s-nests } | | 1st srt. 10,000} | |
„ „ } | 10 to 12 | 2d „ 6,000} |6 ticals | 32,000
„ „ } | | 3d „ 4,000} | |
Young deer’s | | | |
horns | 26,000 pairs | 1½ to 2 |10 per 100| 3,600
Old, ditto, | | | |
ditto |200 piculs | 8 to 9 per pecul |½ |

-------------+----------------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Names | Annual quantity |Prices in ticals | Duties |Revenues. -------------+----------------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Buffalo, | | | | ditto| 200 piculs |3 to 4 per picul |¼ | Ticals. Deers’ nerves| 200 „ |16 to 20 | 1½ | Rhinoceros | | | | skins| 200 „ |7 to 8 |½ | 800 Tigers’ bones| 50 to 60 |50 to 60 | 3 ticals| Buffalo hides| 500 „ |8 to 10 |½ | Deers’ ditto | 100,000 „ |20, 25, and 30 | 3 ticals| 1,600 White dried | | | | fish | 4,000 „ |8 to 9 |½ | Black, ditto | 15,000 „ |7 to 8 |½ | 18,000 Small dried | | | | fish | 60,000 „ |3 to 4 |¼ | Dried shrimps| 10,000 „ |30 to 35 | 3 „ | 4,600 Balachang | 15,000 coyans |50 to 60 | 12 „ | 8,000 Wood oil | 15,000 piculs |3 to 5 |½ | 5,600 Pitch | 10,000 „ |3 to 4 |½ | 6,000 Torches | 200,000 bundles |5 ticals per 100 |½ | 5,600 Rattans | 200,000 „ |4 „ „ |½ | 14,000 Firewood | | | | Wooden posts |1st. 500 to 600 in No.|1 per 4 ticals } | 10 per | | | | 100| 8,000 „ „ |2d. 3,000 „ |1 per 2 do. } | 5 „ | „ „ |3d. 200,000 „ |100 per 25 30 } | „ „ | | | 40 } | 10 „ | 8,000 Bamboos |600,000,000 in No. |3 ticals per 100 | 15 | | | | 100| 3,000 Attaps |95,000,000,000 „ |3 ticals per 1000| 20 „ | 1,600 Rose wood |200,000 „ |342 per picul | 10 „ | Bark |200,000 bundles |100 per 6 ticals | | 1,600

Ticals.
Provinces under the superintendance of the crommahathai,
or 1st minister 32,000
Ditto ditto ditto of the croomkallahom,
or 2d ditto 24,000
Ditto ditto ditto of the crommatha,
or 3d ditto 12,000
Revenue of Justice under the Crammamuang 4,800
„ of the Tribunal 8,000
„ derived from the gold in the province called Bangtaphan,
180 ticals weight of gold.
„ „ „ in the province called Pipri
60 ticals weight of gold.
Tribute which the Malays pay for gold mines, 216 ticals weight of gold.

EXPENDITURE.

Salaries which the king pays to the government officers
annually 618,800
Alms to the Talapoins and the poor 87,600
Monthly allowances to the sons of the late and present kings,
and the second king 29,000
Annual salaries of all the princes employed, and the minors 47,400
Annual pay of the Talapoins 18,240

_Statement of Annual Consumption and Value of Indian Opium in China, for the following Seasons_:--

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| Patna and Benares. |
| |
|Chests. Price. Value. |
Seasons.| | | | | |
| | Lowest.|Highest.|Average.| |
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1816-17 | 2610 | 1080 | 1320 | 1200 |3,132,000 |
1817-18 | 2530 | 1200 | 1330 | 1265 |3,200,450 |
1818-19 | 3050 | 800 | 1200 | 1000 |3,050,000 |
1819-20 | 2970 | 1150 | 1320 | 1235 |3,667,950 |
1820-21 | 3050 | 1300 | 2500 | 1900 |5,795,000 |
1821-22 | 2910 | 1650 | 2500 | 2075 |6,038,250 |
1822-23 | 1822 | 1180 | 2550 | 1552 |2,828,930 |
1823-24 | 2910 | 1100 | 1900 | 1600 |4,656,000 |
1824-25 | 2655 | 900 | 1450 | 1175 |3,119,625 |
1825-26 | 3442 | 800 | 1150 | 913 |3,141,755 |
1826-27 | 3661 | 800 | 1250 | 1002 |3,668,565 |
1827-28 | 5134 | 815 | 1220 | 998 |5,125,155 |
1828-29 | 5965 | 880 | 1100 | 940 |5,604,235 |
1829-30 | 7143 | 805 | 1000 | 860 |6,149,577 |
1830-31 | 6660 | 790 | 1050 | 870 |5,790,204 |
1831-32 | 6060 | | | 953 |4,234,815 |
1832-33 | 6931 | | | 798 |4,459,170 |

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Malva. | Total.
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Chests. Price. Value. |Chests. Value.
| | | | | |
|Lowest.|Highest.|Average.| | |
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600 | 800 | 950 | 875 | 525,000| 3210 | 3,657,000
1150 | 600 | 800 | 612 | 703,800| 3680 | 3,904,250
1530 | 600 | 850 | 725 |1,109,250| 4580 | 4,159,250
1630 | 950 | 1400 | 1175 |1,915,250| 4600 | 5,583,200
1720 | 1230 | 1800 | 1515 |2,605,800| 4770 | 8,400,800
1718 | 1050 | 1600 | 1325 |2,276,350| 4628 | 8,314,600
4000 | 1080 | 1500 | 1290 |5,160,000| 5822 | 7,988,930
4172 | 800 | 1050 | 925 |3,859,100| 7082 | 8,515,100
6000 | 550 | 950 | 750 |4,500,000| 8655 | 7,619,625
6179 | 560 | 850 | 723 |4,466,450| 9621 | 7,608,205
6308 | 860 | 1060 | 942 |5,941,520| 9969 | 9,610,085
4401 | 950 | 1420 | 1204 |5,299,920| 9535 | 10,425,075
7771 | 750 | 1250 | 968 |6,928,880| 13132 | 12,533,115
6857 | 740 | 1030 | 862 |5,907,580| 14000 | 12,057,157
12100 | 520 | 760 | 588 |7,114,059| 18760 | 12,904,263
8265 | | | 704 |5,818,574| 14225 | 11,501,584
14454 | | | 570 |8,258,155| 21385 | 13,757,290

_Average Consumption of fifteen years, ending 31st March, 1832._

Catties.
Chests of Patna and Benares, 19,954 chests, weighing 1,995,400
Or candareens of extract of 50 touch 1,596,320,000
Chests of Malva 24,600 weighing catties 2,460,000
Or candareens of extract of 75 touch 2,952,000,000

Total chests.
44,554.

Total candareens of extract.
45,466,320,000.

Number of smokers, at 3 17-40 candareens per day.
4,152,716.

_Tumbah Tuah’s Letter of Thanks to Captain Geisinger, Bencoolen, August 31st, 1832._

The commander of the United States ship-of-war Peacock, during our short stay at Bencoolen, presented one of the principal rajahs of that place some American tobacco, and the following letter of thanks was sent, written in the Malayan character, which, being translated into English, is as follows:--

“BY THE MERCY OF GOD:

“This friendly epistle is the dictate of a heart very white, and a face very clean, written under a sense of the greatest respect and most exalted love, permanent and unchangeable as the courses of the sun and moon; this is to say from me--a gentleman--Tumbah Tuah of Bencoolen, the Paseer Marlborough. Now may God the Holy and Almighty cause this to arrive before the face of his glorious excellency, Colonel Geisinger, the head man who commands in the American ship-of-war, which is now at anchor off Rat island, in the harbour of Bencoolen.

“Furthermore, after this, the object of this letter is to acknowledge the present of American tobacco sent to me, and which I have duly received through the love of Knoerle the resident of Bencoolen; this is the message [present] of your lordship to me rajah, &c., [two names.] Wherefore I return praise to God, and my expressions of gratitude--thus much.

“Besides this, I can only pray the Lord your God to grant you peace and long life. Amen.

“The gentleman,
“TUMBAH TUAH.

“Bencoolen, the 31st day of the month of August in the year 1832.”

The superscription was as follows:--

“Presenting itself before the visage of his Excellency Colonel Geisinger, commanding the American ship-of-war.”

_Translation of a Letter from the Sultan of Muscat to the President of the United States._

“IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.

“To the most high and mighty Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, whose name shines with so much splendour throughout the world. I pray most sincerely that on the receipt of this letter it may find his Highness, the President of the United States, in high health, and that his happiness may be constantly on the increase. On a most fortunate day and at a happy hour, I had the honour to receive your Highness’s letter, every word of which is clear and distinct as the sun at noonday, and every letter shone forth as brilliantly as the stars in the heavens. Your Highness’s letter was received by your faithful and highly honourable representative and ambassador Edmund Roberts, who made me supremely happy in explaining the object of his mission, and I have complied in every respect with the wishes of your honourable ambassador, in concluding a treaty of friendship and commerce between our respective countries, which shall be faithfully observed by myself and my successors, as long as the world endures. And his Highness may depend that all American vessels resorting to the ports within my dominions, shall know no difference, in point of good treatment, between my country and that of his own most happy and fortunate country, where felicity ever dwells. I most fervently hope that his Highness the President may ever consider me as his firm and true friend, and that I will ever hold the President of the United States very near and dear to my heart, and my friendship shall never know any diminution, but shall continue to increase till time is no more. I offer, most sincerely and truly, to his Highness the President, my entire and devoted services, to execute any wishes the President may have within my dominions, or within any ports or places wherein I possess the slightest influence.

“_This_ is from your most beloved friend,
“SYEED BIN SULTAN.

“Written on the twenty-second day of the Moon, Jamada Alawel, in the year Alhajira 1249,[A] at the Royal Palace in the city of Muscat.

[A] Corresponding to seventh of October, 1833.

“This letter is to have the address of being presented to the most high and mighty Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, whose name shines with so much brilliancy throughout the world.”

_Translation of the “Chinese Chop,” relative to the United States’
Sloop-of-war Peacock, D. Geisinger, Commander, and sent to the
Hong-Merchants at Canton._

“Chung, Imperial Commissioner at the Port of Canton, Tsunhwan of
Jeho, &c., &c., hereby issues an order to the Hong-Merchants:--

“The Custom officers at Macao have reported, saying: On the sixteenth day of the present Moon, [November ninth, 1832,] the pilot, Leu Kefang reported, that on the sixteenth, the American cruiser Geisinger[A] came and anchored off the Nine islands; that immediately he went and inquired why he came and anchored, and that the captain of the said ship replied, that he sailed from his own country to Manila, and a gale having driven him hither, he had anchored for a short time; but that when the wind should become fair he would set sail and depart. Now on examination it is ascertained that there are in the ship two hundred foreign seamen, twenty-four cannon, one hundred muskets, one hundred swords, nine hundred catties of powder, and nine hundred balls. Uniting these circumstances they are forthwith reported. Having obtained this information, we ordered the pilots to keep a strict watch and guard (against the ship.) Moreover, as it is right, we send up this report.

[A] The Chinese always omit the name of the ship, and insert the name of the captain.

“_This_ coming before me, the hoppo, and having ascertained that the said cruiser is not a merchant-ship, nor a convoy, and that she has on board an unusual number of seamen, cannon and weapons, she is not allowed, under any pretext, to anchor, and create disturbances. Wherefore, _Let her be driven away_. And let the “hong-merchants,” on receiving this order, act in obedience thereto, and enjoin it upon the said nation’s Tae-pan,[B] that he order and compel the said ship to depart and return home. He is not allowed to frame excuses, linger about, and create disturbances, and so involve offences, that would be examined into and punished. Let the day fixed for her departure be reported. _Haste! haste!_ A special order.

[B] Consul.

“TAOU KWANG.

“Twelfth year, twenty-second day of the ninth intercalary moon.”[C]

[C] November sixteenth, 1832.

NOTE.--The truth of the matter is, the pilot, who came in the mandarin-boat, was informed, that the Peacock was on a cruise and last from Manila, and came there for provisions, and when she was supplied, and otherwise ready, she would proceed to sea. But nothing was said to him that she was driven there in a gale of wind from Manila. An order was issued commanding the Peacock to quit the waters of China, but no notice was taken of it, for the ship remained at Linting for six weeks after. So inefficient is the _navy_ of China in the present day, that the Peacock alone could destroy the whole “_imperial fleet_,” and have passed up to Canton and back with a _leading wind_, without receiving any material injury from the forts, as their guns are firmly imbedded in stone and mortar, and they can only be fired in one direction.

THE END.

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Transcriber's Note

Duplicate headings have been removed.

The following apparent printing errors have been corrected:

p. 9 "Cavite" changed to "Cavité"

p. 9 "Cavite" changed to "Cavité"

p. 10 "Hue" changed to "Hué"

p. 20 "ever house" changed to "every house"

p. 31 "Malborough" changed to "Marlborough"

p. 35 "who who were busily" changed to "who were busily"

p. 40 "‘Some" changed to "“Some"

p. 44 "seeming delight" changed to "seeming delight."

p. 47 "American consul," changed to "American consul."

p. 51 "CAVITE" changed to "CAVITÉ"

p. 57 "CAVITE" changed to "CAVITÉ"

p. 65 "peloto?" changed to "peloto?”"

p. 85 "if she" changed to "“if she"

p. 96 "“it is a villa" changed to "it is a villa"

p. 101 "of taxes." changed to "of taxes.”"

p. 104 "Nan-hae-heen che-heen" changed to "Nan-hae-heen-che-heen"

p. 132 "crosing" changed to "crossing"

p. 133 "POPULATION" changed to "POPULATION."

p. 134 "the earth" changed to "the earth."

p. 138 "longtitude" changed to "longitude"

p. 142 "grand son" changed to "grandson"

p. 144 "1618" changed to "1681"

p. 147 "twenty six" changed to "twenty-six"

p. 169 "mandarin, ducks" changed to "mandarin ducks"

p. 178 "I am" changed to "“I am"

p. 178 "at Hué?" changed to "at Hué?”"

p. 181 "navigation,’" changed to "navigation,”"

pp. 189 and 191 "HUE" changed to "HUÉ"

p. 190 "confectionary" changed to "confectionary."

p. 193 "before hey" changed to "before they"

p. 198 "Hitherto all" changed to "“Hitherto all"

p. 198 "places." changed to "places.”"

p. 200 "“_liberal treatment_?”" changed to "‘_liberal treatment_?’”"

p. 203 "I have now" changed to "“I have now"

p. 213 "MANDARINES’" changed to "MANDARINS’"

p. 216 "to Hue" changed to "to Hué"

p. 216 "can.’" changed to "can.”"

p. 224 "peacocks,," changed to "peacocks,"

p. 227 "STRENTH" changed to "STRENGTH"

p. 266 "wh take" changed to "who take"

p. 273 "the iron" changed to "the iron."

p. 274 "Chinese" changed to "Chinese."

p. 282 "case, i" changed to "case, is"

p. 282 "less tha" changed to "less than"

p. 290 "cocks’ with horses bodies" changed to "cocks with horses’ bodies"

p. 296 "orginally" changed to "originally"

p. 298 "Phanlcon" changed to "Phaulcon" (two instances)

p. 302 "third rank)" changed to "third rank,)"

p. 302 "rank,) &c," changed to "rank,) &c.,"

p. 308 "witnesses" changed to "witnesses."

p. 313 "a star," changed to "a star."

p. 317 "2d do 6,000." changed to "2d do. 6,000."

p. 318 "32 to 40 do" changed to "32 to 40 do."

p. 326 "expenses of the prahu" changed to "expenses of the prahū"

p. 327 "midnight" changed to "midnight."

p. 341 "region" changed to "region."

p. 368 "curiases" changed to "cuirasses"

p. 371 "pla as" changed to "place was"

p. 374 "Guardafui,may" changed to "Guardafui, may"

p. 378 "us,speaking" changed to "us, speaking"

p. 390 "Wynberb" changed to "Wynberg"

p. 398 "longtitude" changed to "longitude"

p. 408 "Sakci" changed to "Sakei"

p. 409 "Gantang,and" changed to "Gantang, and"

p. 409 "extraordinary,the" changed to "extraordinary, the"

p. 417 (note) "190, 191.”" changed to "190, 191."

p. 418 (note) "202, 203." changed to "202, 203.)"

p. 419 "vol. ii" changed to "vol. ii."

p. 431 (note) "the captain" changed to "the captain."

Many archaic, inconsistent, and variant spellings, as well as inconsistent hyphenation, have not been changed. The following possible mistakes have also been left as printed:

p. 97 the passage beginning "says: “The gates" has no ending quotation mark. The quotation continues to the words "and “Odyssey.”".

p. 136 the values in the table are inconsistent.

On p. 204, there are reference to 1833 as both the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh year of independence.

p. 279 they but most of them

p. 372 "Bissaõ"

p. 381 "the spot where there domicil is"

p. 387 the values in the table are inconsistent.

p. 389 the values in the table are inconsistent.

p. 400 the values in the table are inconsistent.

p. 403 the values in the table are inconsistent.

p. 423 the values in the table are inconsistent.

p. 424 the values in the table are inconsistent.

p. 428 the values in the table are inconsistent.

p. 406 "Free casts"