Note 9 — X.
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Thus, for example, we find on the island of Kar-Nicobar the following specimens of barter:—
ForPair of ripe cocoa-nuts.
a sort of hunting-knife or cutlass, worth about $1 1⁄2300
a small knife-blade100
six table knife-blades300
an American knife50
a hatchet300
a musket500
a double-barrelled gun2500
a large spoon150
thirty feet of silver-wire2500
a small cask of rum2500
a flask of arrack10
three "sticks" of (negro-heads) tobacco100
a flask of castor-oil50
a cabin lamp500
a sack of rice300
a piece of blue calico (about 6 to 8 ells)100
a neck-cloth100
Epsom salts, turpentine, spirit of camphor, eau-de-Cologne, and peppermint, are also much-prized articles of barter, and bring a large profit, being exchanged for old clothes, salt meat, onions, and biscuit.