Part 2 — APPENDIX I
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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-ladle500pairs.
" long spoon500 "
" table spoon and fork500 "
" dessert spoon and fork300 "
" tea spoon and small fork120 "
" mustard spoon200 "
Tumblers20-40pairs, according to size.
Decanters60-80 " " "
China plates40-80 " " "
" bowls40-80 " " "
Enamelled plates40-80 " " "
" cups40-80 " " "
Matches, packet of 12 boxes24pairs.
Needles, 1 dozen12 "
Thread, 1 dozen balls12 "
Chinese tobacco, 1 packet40 "
Tobacco, 1 bundle100 "
Red cloth, 1 piece1200 "
" 1 piece (Turkey)1600 "
White calico, 1 piece800 "
Chinese black cloth, 1 piece600 "
Madras handkerchiefs, 1 piece800-2000pairs.
Fancy coloured chintz and saris—
" Bombay handkerchiefs—
Rice (1 bag of 2 maunds, Calcutta)300-500pairs.
" (1 bag of 3 maunds, Burma)500-600 "
Chattis and pots10-40 "
American knives80-120 "
" " clasp20-60 "
Burmese dáos40-200 "
Table knives40-160 "
Two-anna pieces8 "
Rupee30-50 "
Wooden and tin clothes-boxes, looking-glasses, sugar, camphor, Epsom salts, Eno's fruit salt, turpentine, castor oil, cabin biscuits, etc.