Note 59 — Chapter V

Merchants were sometimes, however, misled. An American, who had a smart U.S. brig, once showed a friend of mine his invoice of a cargo of Peruvian cotton, which had reached Gibraltar from Peru. Counting his profits on a sale in England, where he had ordered her to come, he was wofully disappointed when told of the unlucky third section, which forbade its importation. The fortune he had counted upon realising melted away at once.