Chapter XXXI: Appendix: I

TRADE ARTICLES AND THEIR VALUE IN THE NICOBARS

List of the principal articles imported by the traders for sale to the Kar Nicobarese:--

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 _daos_ 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.