Note XXXIII-1 — Chapter XXXIII · COMMERCE AND FINANCE. 1801-1887.
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Two or three vessels at most came every year to Acajutla from Peru with wines, olive oil, and other articles for the table, and 200,000 or 300,000 pesos in specie for the purchase of indigo. From Cuba came eight or ten vessels with petty cargoes of rum, onions, etc., the average worth being $5,000 or $6,000. They each took back, besides indigo, 30,000 or 40,000 pesos in coin and in gold and silver bullion. Mex., Gaceta, 1804-5, xii. 178-80; Cancelada, Ruina N. Esp., 48-9; Córtes, Col. Doc., ii. 341; Henderson's British Hond., 30-1, 35; Guat., Apuntam., 136-41; Nic. y Hond., Docs., 11-12; Arrillaga, Informe, in Cedulario, iv. 60-1; Urrutia, Modelo, 2-3; Guat., Gaz., vii. 293-320, passim; iii. 70, 464, 504.