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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 59
for a Pagoda niav be the average price that they get for good rice, CHAPTER
° or ./at? XIV
which is 3s. 1 d. a bushel. The coarser kinds are lower in proportion. ^^ ^j
Next to rice, Supdri or Betel-nut is the chief export. It is sent Jan* 22'
to Surat, Bombay; and Cutch. The export price of the raw nut is 14
Pagodas a Candy, or 1/. %s. k\d. a hundred-weight. That of the
boiled nut is 15 Pagodas, or 1/. 3s. ll^d. a hundred-weight.
Black-pepper the merchants reckon the next greatest article of
export; but, to judge from the custom-house accompts, it would
seem to be more considerable. Its average price is 34 Pagodas a
Candy, or 31. \s. Id. a hundred-weight. The customs on pepper are
lower here than in Malabar, and no rent nor tax is exacted from the
cultivator; yet the price at Mangalore is higher than at Tellichery,
and the cultivation is more neglected.
Sandal wood is sent to Bombay ; but it is all the produce of the
country above the Ghats.
Cassia, called here Dhdl'-China, or cinnamon, is sent to Muscat,
Cutch, Surat, and Bombay; and is exported at 9 Pagodas the Candy,
or 14*. ±\d. the hundred-weight. The buds of this tree are called
Cabob China, which seems to be the origin of the European word
Cubeb. They are exported to the same places.
Turmeric grows in the country, and is exported to Muscat, Cutch,
Surat, and Bombay, at the rate of 8 Pagodas a Candy, or 12<y. 9-kd.
a hundred-weight.
The chief imports, according to these merchants, are blue cotton Imports,
cloths from Surat, Cutch, and Madras. The Surat cloth is the most
common. It is 36 cubits long, two broad, and of a very dark colour,
and sells for from 18 to 50 Pagodas a Gorge, or from 3*- to 10 Rupees
a piece.
Coarse white cotton cloth from Cutch, Bavanagur, and other
places north from Bombay.
Salt from Bombay and Goa. The former sells at 70 Pagodas a
Cumbu, and the latter at 50 Pagodas: the former is a little more
than 3\d, and the latter than %%d. a bushel.
for a Pagoda niav be the average price that they get for good rice, CHAPTER
° or ./at? XIV
which is 3s. 1 d. a bushel. The coarser kinds are lower in proportion. ^^ ^j
Next to rice, Supdri or Betel-nut is the chief export. It is sent Jan* 22'
to Surat, Bombay; and Cutch. The export price of the raw nut is 14
Pagodas a Candy, or 1/. %s. k\d. a hundred-weight. That of the
boiled nut is 15 Pagodas, or 1/. 3s. ll^d. a hundred-weight.
Black-pepper the merchants reckon the next greatest article of
export; but, to judge from the custom-house accompts, it would
seem to be more considerable. Its average price is 34 Pagodas a
Candy, or 31. \s. Id. a hundred-weight. The customs on pepper are
lower here than in Malabar, and no rent nor tax is exacted from the
cultivator; yet the price at Mangalore is higher than at Tellichery,
and the cultivation is more neglected.
Sandal wood is sent to Bombay ; but it is all the produce of the
country above the Ghats.
Cassia, called here Dhdl'-China, or cinnamon, is sent to Muscat,
Cutch, Surat, and Bombay; and is exported at 9 Pagodas the Candy,
or 14*. ±\d. the hundred-weight. The buds of this tree are called
Cabob China, which seems to be the origin of the European word
Cubeb. They are exported to the same places.
Turmeric grows in the country, and is exported to Muscat, Cutch,
Surat, and Bombay, at the rate of 8 Pagodas a Candy, or 12<y. 9-kd.
a hundred-weight.
The chief imports, according to these merchants, are blue cotton Imports,
cloths from Surat, Cutch, and Madras. The Surat cloth is the most
common. It is 36 cubits long, two broad, and of a very dark colour,
and sells for from 18 to 50 Pagodas a Gorge, or from 3*- to 10 Rupees
a piece.
Coarse white cotton cloth from Cutch, Bavanagur, and other
places north from Bombay.
Salt from Bombay and Goa. The former sells at 70 Pagodas a
Cumbu, and the latter at 50 Pagodas: the former is a little more
than 3\d, and the latter than %%d. a bushel.