COMMERCIAL REPORTS

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HER MAJESTY’S CONSULS

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CHINA AND SIAM.

1864.

Presentedto bothHousesof Parliament by Commandof Her Majesty.

May 29, 1865.

LONDON :
PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS.
1865.
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No. 15.

Consul Knox to Earl Russell. (Received May 19.)

My Lord, Bangkok, March 31, 18C5.

I have the honour to forward the Returns of trade of this port
for the year ended December 31st, 1864.
I have, &c.
(Signed) THOMAS GEORGE KNOX.

Inclosure in No. 15.

Commercial Report for the Port of Bangkok for 1864.

During the last three yearsthe tonnageclearedat this port has been
a follows :

TotalTonnage. British Tonnage.

1862 132,188 26,817
1863 115,914 8,603
1864 171,335 54,771

Thus 1864 showsa large increasein the amount of tonnage cleared

at this port. British shipping has fully availed itself of this advantage,the
amount employed being very nearly double the average of tho last ’fire
years.
The large demand for rice in China, together with the almost total
disappearanceof United States’ shipping from these waters, account in a
great measurefor the extendedemployment of British vessels.
There has also been a considerable augmentation in the tonnage of
Hanseatic vesselsemployedat this port.
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In 1863 the total tonnage was 8,948,which in 1864 has risen to
21.124. Thesevesselsare peculiarlyw Madaptedfor this trade,as,having
beenbuilt with a fiat floor anda good amountof beam,they are able to
carry their cargosson a light draughtof water. Thus vesselsof a con
siderablecarryi&gcapacityare ableto load insidethe river, and the cargoes
are savedthe extra expenseincurredwhenconveyedin lighters to those
vesselsthat haveto loadoutsidethe bar.
The averagedepth of water on the bar at spring tidesis 12 feet 6
inches. The chargefor lighterage to vesselsloading outside is 7 cents
of the dollar per picul of 133lbs.
The Siameseshippingemployedduring the last threeyearshasbeenas
follows:
1S62. 1863. 1864,
Vessels 126 104 131
Tonnage 47,078 37,981 51,431
Many of thesevesselshave been constructedin Bangkok by native
carpenters. Thosebuilt during the last four or five yearsare fully equal
to the averageof Europeanvessels.
They are built of teak and well coatedwith chunamtinderthe copper;
althoughtheir plankingis only fastenedto the timber by spike nails, yet
there are very few instances,even where they have nut with typhoons,
that they havedamagedtheir cargoes.
The remainderof the vesselsownedby Siamesehave beenpurchased
from foreigners.
Tlie principal qualitieslookedfor area goodcarrying capacity,with a
light draft. During the pastyear the following vesselshavebeenat this
port :
Name. Flag. ForeignName Tons.
Hera American Fairy . . 572
KiunRyo Ditto . . Jas.Lawrence 251
British .. MariaGumbrill . . 852
Penguin.. Ditto .. Penguin. . 197
Starof Peaco American Shirof Peace
Thereare now five steam-tugsand lighters employedin towing vessels
to andfrom the bar. Three of thembelongto an Americanfirm, one to
a Siamese,and the other is a British vessel,lately built at Liverpool,and
the propertyof the Captain.
Imports.
The importsfor the last three yearshavebeen:
1862. 1863. 186-1.

Goodsimported 360,601 614,142 793,999

Gold 99,972 56,118 100,496
Silver.. 127,085 116,335 273,202
Totnl. . 587,658 786,595 1,167,597
This Table showsthat in 1864the importshaveweeded thoseof the
two preceding,an,indeed,they haveof all former years. There is, how
ever, nothing further remarkablein the increase,as all the articles usually
imported into oiam have fairly sharedin it. As mostof the goodshave
been imported from Singapore,it is impossibleto state exactly their
nationality,but from a glanceat the Table it can easilybe inferred that
bv far the greaterand more valuablepart are of British origin.
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Exports,
Rice. The export of rice during the year 1864 amounted to
125,50? tons.
The increased demand for this grain in China has already led to an
extension of its cultivation, and will doubtless lead to more. The price
at which it sells it ruled entirely by the demandin China, and the growers,
who usually bring their own produce to market, must have realized very
large profits during the last few years.
The average price during the last year has been 300 per cent, higher
than it was before the Treaty of 1855. The land on which the seedis
sown belougs to the King, and the rent charged is 2/. 10*. per acre. In
good seasonsthe retnrn from the seedis ninety-fold.
There is no system of irrigation, the natives trusting entirely to the
rains or the overflowing of the rivers for the necessarymoisture.
Manure is not used, and the fields are seldomleft fallow. The ground
is-therefore, not so productive as it could be made,nor is newlaud brought
into cultivation at the rate which might be expected.
The extended cultivation has been merely on the land which was
formerly allowed to remain fallow. Thus, a person having, say ten acres,
used formerly to cultivate five, and leave the reast fallow for that year ;
now he cultivates the whole ten yearly. The land in the vicinity of the
rivers and canals is now mostly taken up ; but there can be liitle doubt,
that owing to the increased fertility of the new land, it will be found
profitable to cultivate it. The constant employment of the same ground,
as above alluded to, will also necessitateuew land being brought into culti
vation.
Only one crop is sown in the year.
Teak. The Siamese Government have now withdrawn all obstacles
placed in the way of foreigners who wished to engage in the inland teak
trade. They have also allowed foreigners to rent and work the jungles in
which the teak trees grow,
I have, therefore, no doubt but that a very large trade in this timber
will spring up during the next two or three years.
Bangkok possessessome considerable advantages over Maulmain as
regards the facility with which the timber c be brought down to it. I
have also b?en informed by those who have visited the forests from which
Maulmain is supplied, as also the forests from whencethe timber is brought
to Bangkok, that in the latter the trees are both more abundant and of a
larger size. This last fact is one of considerable importance, as, I helieve,
good lengths of teak plank, say 60 to 70 feet, are much required in
England. There is here no difficulty in finding trees of large girth, of
ev?n greater lengths than that abovestated.
Their transport from the spot where the trees art felled to the water,
by which they are brought down to Bangkok, is the great difficulty. At
present the sole means used for dragging timber in the forests is by
elephants. These animals are not even assisted by blocks or pulley*,
which, it appearsto me, would much facilitate their work at a heavy pull,
as would rollers, and, doubtless, many other expedients ns yet hitherto
uuumploved. Whether steam-powercould be profitably usedis n question
which will doubtless be solvr-d before long, but the great inequalities of the
ground will, I fear, militate much against it. Those foreigners who have
obtained leave to work a jungle have a certain tract made over to them,
and the payment agreed upon is two rupees for each tree felled.
In order to work a jungle properly an outlay of tbout 4,000/. would
be requisite for the purchase of elephants, hire of labour, &c.
Those that hare not so large a capital at their disposalcould enter into
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contracts with the Chiefs of the different districts, who, having much
manual and elephant labour at their disposal,will, I am sure, be found
willing to bring the Jogsto the water and hand them over to the purchaser
at the rates agreed on. In Siam proper the jungles are under the
superintendenceof the Governorsof the districts ; in the Laos provinces
they are the private property of the Chiefs, of whom there are five or six
in eachprovince.
There are numerousother descriptionsof wood in Siam applicableto
ship building, but with the exepptionof " maitakien," the prices areashigh
as that given for teak, and the great easewith which the latter is worked,
together with its well known character for durability, will always give it
the preference.
The "mai takien" above alluded to can be had in lengths up to
90 feet. It is a very durable wood, particularly under water, is easily
worked, and its elasticity is such that 2-inch planks ran be fastened
on to the timbers of vesselswithout the necessityof "teaming it. It is to
be had in great abundanceall along the coast. The presentprice is high,
as the businessof bringing it to Bangkok is entirely in the hands of
Chinese. The profit which they reapfrom the transaction must be groat,
as they chargeexactly 100 per cent, more for it in Bangkokthan it can be
bought at even forty miles distant down the coast.
Sugar. For many years past the production of sugar has been
gradually decreasingin Siani The heavy taxation to which, in all stages
of its production, this article was subjected, is undoubtedly the main
causeof its decrease.
This can be easily understoodwhen it is known that the land on which
it wasgrown, the caneitself, the mills and boilers usedin its manufacture,
and the boatsin which it wasbrought to Bangkok,all andeachwere taxed,
and that not lightly. These taxes,after repeatedapplicationsfrom this
Consulate and other quarters, have at last been taken off, with the
exceptionof that on the land, which is 2*. lOrf. per acre, and that on the
boatsis collectedon all boats,howeveremployed.
Within the last three monthsa large steamsugarmill hasbeenerected
in the Na-chon-chaisedistrict. The native sugar manufacturersare, I
believe, now aware of the great advantageit possessesover their own
mills, therefore others will probably be ordered. I am informed bv those
who ought to well capable of giving an opinion that the land in the
Na-chon-chaisedistrict is peculiarly well adapted for the growth of the
cane,and, as the samesoil prevails over a very large surface,there is no
valid reason why Siam should not take high rank amongst the sugar-
producing countries of the world. The cane is that known as the
Salangorecane.
Cotton. It is very difficult to obtain any reliable information as
regards the extent of the cultivation of cotton in Siam.
This country, like most others in the East, is doubtle.sucapableof
producing large quantities of the plant, and it is merely a question as to
whether its cultivation will give a higher profit to the growers than many
other articles which the soil is also able to produce. Under the present
high prices it probably does,and the fact that the amount brought down
to Bangkok in 1864 was 13,000 piculs of cleanand 7,000uncleanagainst
7,200 of the former and 4,550 of the latter in 1863 may be taken
as evidence thereof. This cotton was grown at a considerabledistance
from Bangkok, in the northern part of Siani, and Chineseemigrants Irons
the Island of Hainan are the principal, if not the sole,cultivators.
From the information I have been able to obtain (for I have nevr
visited the district myself), both the cultivation of the plant itself nud the
means employed in picking and cleaning the rottou are of the rudest
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description. A patrh of jungle is cleared,generally a new one every year,

whereby much good limber is destroyed. The ground is lightly hoed,
and the seedsown broadcastat the time that rain is expected.
Nothing further seemsto be done until the plant hasgrown up. There
is a small quantity of cotton, about 3,000 piculs, grown ia Samui,an island
in the Gulf of Siam, but so quiet has this been kept by the Chinesethat
it was unknown to any Europeanin the placeuntil one month since, when
it was discoveredby a person whom I had sent there to get information.
It has hitherto beenexported to Hainan.
As it is hardly probable that the presenthigh price of cotton will long
continue, as the article grown in this country is of an inferior description,
and could not be improved without a considerable expenditure of capital
and labour, neither of which requisites are likely to be available in this
country, at least for sometime to come, I think it may be safely roncluded
that the supply of cotton from Siam will not be for many years of any
importance.
Siam has many other productions, but, with the exception of sapan
wood, of which the supply is large, the amount producedhas hitherto been
small, which may ir. somemeasurebe taken as n proof that to supply them
is not found sufficiently profitable to induce much labour to be employed
in the business. I therefore think that for sometime to comethe principal
productions of Siam will be found to be rice, sugar, and teak.
The production of the rice, as 1 have before stated,has much increased,
and the export trade in this article has becomeone of considerable import
ance.
I believe this in a great measure arises from the fact that when th;
Treaty of 1855 wasmade,it wasagreed that the duty on this article should
be paid by the exporter?. The tax-gatherers have tbus had to deal with
Europeanswho -wouldnot be imposedupon, and the native producerswere
freed from these harpies.
It is otherwisewith sugar, which was subjectedto an inland duty levied
on the manufacturers, who, doubtless,are oiten imposedupon.
With regard to teak no provision was made, and it therefore becamea
monopoly in the handsof one of the King’s brothers, who so dealt with the
matter that during the last three years the supply has been very far short
of the demand. I have prevailed on the SiameseGovernment to allow
foreigners to embark in the business of bringing timber to Bangkok,
paying a duty of 20 per cent, of its value on arrival at Bangkok, and I
have great hopesof seeinga very flourishing trade spring up. Until the
present any large logs were seizedfor the King, 3nd the Governors of the
towus on tie river by which the timber passedwere also in the habit of
taking a log or two from each raft for their own use.
Population. The population of Siam Proper can only be guessedat
;
but I imagine it must be about 4,000,000. It consists of native Siamese,
Chinese,Cochin Chinese,Laos, Psquans,Burmese,and Malays.
With the exception of the Si meseand Chinese,the others are de.cn-
dants of the prisoners taken by tue Siamese armies in former times. Of
thesevarious peoplesthe Chineseseemto me to be the only one at present
on the increase. Far more industrious than the rest, the women prefer
them as husbands,and as they do not exact the same,amount of work from
their wives that a Siamesehusbandwould do, the mother has more time
to attend to her offspring.
The consequenceis, that more of their children arrive at the age of
maturity than thoseof the Siameseand other inhabitants of this country.
The female descendantsof this race are in dress and appearancesimilar
to the Siamese; the males, growing the Chinesetail and dressine similar
to their fathers, are not easily distinguished from the native Chinaman
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From this breedhave sprung the native merchantsof Siam, who are also
for the most p?rt the fanners of the revenue.
The European and American residents in this place are in number
about 2Q0persons.
There are eight mercantilehouses,two ship chandlers,three steamrice-
mills, and two steam-tujj proprietors. Besidesthesethere are twenty-two
firms managed by natives of Surat andt Bombay, some of which have
considerable capital at their disposal; and also a large number of
Madrassers,principally from the neighbourhoodof Pulicat and Nagore,
engagedas shopkeepersin Bangkokand someof the large towns of Siam,
as well as doing a pedlar businessthroughout the country.
I had hopedto havehad a table of the different taxes levied in Siam
readyfor this Report. They are, however,so numerous,and I may sayin
a measuresoundefined,though not unfelt, that I have beenas yet unable
to thoroughly completeit. I will, therefore, content myself with stating
that the nativesof Siam are, I am certain, more heavily taxed than any
other peoplein the world.
There is a carpenternow working in the room in which I am now
writing, and this is his story which I knowto be true. He is the descendant
of parentswho were taken prisonersin a raid made by the Siameseinto
Saooyabout forty yearsago. He is, therefore,what is called the King’s
slave. He receives from the Royal Treasury the sum of sixteen ticals
(2A) a year. For this he owesfour months*service in the year.
The right to employ this man’sservicehas been given to one of the
King’s officers,and to this officer the carpenter pays twenty-four ticals
(3/.) a year. He therefore paysa personaltax of U. sterling a year. He
has a small garden in which there are five durian trees; on each of
these trees tic pays a yearly tax of one lical. besides taxes on other
trees, amountingto two ticals anda-half a year. He therefore payson the
produceof a garden, not an acre in extent, the sum of 19*. 3d. a year.
He keepsa boat in which his wife takes the produce of this garden to
market. This boat is 18 feet long:,and he therefore has to pay a tax of
Is. 6rf. a year on the boat. When his wife gets to market and has sold
’her fruit, &c, she finds that everything in the way of eatableswhich she
has to purchasefor her husbandis also taxed, in somecases30 per cent.
The greatestevil of all, however, is the Governmentgambling shops,
which are planted all over the place,and wherenine-tentths of the people
lose the little savingstheir rulers haveleft them.
(Signed) THOMAS GEORGE KNOX.
Bangkok, March 31, 1865.
 (No.1.) ReturnofBritishShipping
atthePortofBangkok duringtheYear1864.
Direct
Trade
isBritish
Vessels
from
an*
toGrot and
BritaintheBritish
Colonies
ENTERED CLEARED
Total
Number
ofVessels Total
Tonnage.TotalTotal Total
Number
ofVessels Total
Tot? Value
TonnageNumber
Total
Whence
Arrived.With In Total
_ . With In Total.Number
of Value
of Whither
Bound.With In T... With In of of
Carp**.
Ballast Cargoes.
Ballast Crews Cargoes Total Total.
Ballast Crews
Ballast. Cargoes
Cargoes Cargo*.
England
... 1 1 441 441 I
18 17.930England 1 231 i
10 6,?
...
Bombay 1 891
1 11.841 691 728 4,493
68 172.700 1
1 SC62,918 231
1 5,873 2? 60C 6,257
U G1.4S0
Singapore 35 40 6,366
18,507 Bombay
Singapore
. 19 20 8,7l
Hong
Kong S3 60 83 8.S12 21.SH 1,851?7.W9
S0,fi61 Hong . 78 78 S9.49S 29,498 1.17*100,478
Melbourne 1 1 607 607 17 4,375 Kong
60 132 21,385
27.819
49,197 246,685
3,160 99 6 105 35,868 2,91838.786
1,700463.416
00
Indirect
orCarrying
Trade Vessels
inBritish from
and
toother
Countries
ENTERED CLEARED
Total
NumberofVessels Total
Tonnage.Number
TotalTotal Total
Number
ofVessels Total
Tonnage.TotalTotal
WhenceArrived Withi in With In of Value
of Bound.With In Total-With In -.... Number
Whither Value
of Cars
Total
t..Ballast Cargoes -,
Total
Ballast. Crew*. Cargoes Cargoes
Ballast Cargoes TotalCrew*.
Ballast ofon.
Cargoes
Port*
ofChina 11 11 3.6
’0 8,560166 ofChina 27
Port* t
9,835511 90,556
Yokohama
... 1 1
1 161 325 326151 11
IS 938New
J York
ava ... 13 1 9,835
27
13 607
-1,739 607 189
4,732 8,923
17 48.975
Kamput
Singora
... ft ?44 74t 39 Macao 3 3 fill 811 82 0,940
Macao 3 617 22 3,130
3 14 17 cos 4,629 11,297 263 4,068 43 15,985 16,986 749163,399
BritishConsulate,
Bangkok,March31,1865. (Signed) THOMASGEORGEKNOX,Consul.
 (No.2.) ReturnofBritishandForeign Shipping
inthePortofBangkok theyear1864.
during
ENTERED CLEARED
With
Cargoes. InBallast. Total. Cargoes. InBallast
With Total
ofVessels
Nationality Invoice Invoice
Value
of Value
of
Cargoes.
i Cargoes.
Vessels
I TonsCrews VesselsI
Tons I
Vessels
ICrews JTonsCrews Vessels
I I
ITonsCrewsVessels I
TonsCrews TonsCrews
I
Vessels i
155 3 64,771 38 616,814
1,0353,449
British
Belgian
Danish 2 22,053
83 623 97S
1,860
o> 86
76 351 33,(93
4031,369
16147
265 32S 54,645
1,023
8,178
2,413
38 250,753
143
3 61,853
8,010 38 6 3,918 148
1,0252,294
332 31 6,010 333 66,391
Dutch 76 1,242 107 4 6.518 53 9 2.578 341
130 316 3,284 1’.8 6 8,284 118 ?776
French... 4 1,065 4B 3 2,659 84 16
7 3,744 133 17,008149 3,678 160 9 2,678
14 3,699 160
179 ?
Hanoverian
Hanseatic 7 l.?7 80 388 2,979 11275 3,936 192 3,699 179
832 65 75 21,124 897 f
Norway
and 37
Sweden "m9.879 42413 11,245
3,896 463
14412 21,124
3.896 897 70
12 19.53T
3,896 144 1,587 12 3,896 144 23,334
3 1,100 ? 4 1,294144
63 3 953 39 "34024 4 1,293 43 8,648
Oldenburg
Mecklenburg... 1 293 16 1 293 16 1 393 16 1 293 16 1,625
Prussian 1 433 10 1 286 770 11 1 5 1,203 1 286 6711 286 11 1,835
1 1.203
Austrian
United
States... 1,851 "S3 3,163 9 286 67
6,014 11 1,203
6 6,628 177 69520 6
11 7,333 57 48,360
197
Russian 202 10 7 56 1 202 89
10 19,275 9 1 20210 1 202 10 56^500
Siamese 134 13451,431 f 97 60,(595 4 1.653 101 63,348
26592,602 19366,247
1,814 2,672 4,564
457158,849 403163,9434,39919 7.395274422171,3354,660
BritishConsulate,
Bangkok,
March31,1865. KNOX,Consul
THOMASGEORGE
o
 tNo.3.) Retukn of Foreign
Shipping
engaged
in theDirectandIndirectTradeat thePortof Bangkok,
in theYear1804.
Entxbid. Clkabkd.
ofVessels.
Nationality Trade. Indirect
Direct Trade. Total. DirectTrade. Indirect
Trade. Total.
Vessels.1’ona.Vessels.
Tons. Vessels.
Tons. Vessel*.Tons. Vessels.Tons. Vessels.Tons.
Belgian a 1,025 3 1,025 3 1,025 3 1,025
Danish 32 8,178 82 8,178 31 8,010 31 8,010 2,678-
Dutch 1 8 2,140 9 2,678 7 1,888 2 690 9
French.. 3 879 4 2,865 7 3,744 6 3,284 6 3,284
Hanorerian 15 3,936 16 3,936 14 8,699 14 3,699 ISO
Hanteatic 75 21,124 75 21,124 75 21,124 76 21,124 8
NorwayandSweden 12 3,896 12 3,896 12 3,896 12 3,896
Oldenburg 4 1,294 4 1,294 4 1,294 4 1,204
Mecklenburg 1 293 1 293 1 293 1 293
Prussian 6 1,203 6 1,203 5 1,203 5 1,203
Austrian 1 286 1 286 1 286 1 286
States..
United 9 5,014 9 6,014 4 2,734 7 4,689 11 7,3*3
Siamese
.. 134 51,431 134 51,431 97 40,871 97 40,371
202"
Russian
.. .. 202 1 202 "l 202 1
Total 138 52,748 170 51,466 308 104,204 108 44,993 162 49,595 270 94,588

Bangkok,March31,1865.
BritishConsulate, (Signed) THOMASGEORGEKNOX, Contul.
 \

(No.4 ) ReturnofImports
intothePortofBangkok,
during
theYear18G4.

romSin
From
S ingapore
Batavia
and From
Kong. From
Hong India.From
China.From Europe.From Total Total
Coast.Quantity. Value.
Bales
2 Bales Bales ? Bales Bales Bales Bales
i IValue
Packages
Cases I Cases
Value Value
Packages
I Cases Value
I Cases
Packages I Cases
I Packages
Value Value
Packages Packages
2 Cases Packages
Cases Mexican
Dollars
Sterling
White
shirting* bales corges 2,057Dollars.
189,963 123Dollar*.
13,233 Dollars Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. 2,180203,18442,830
Grey 1,841823,350 166 368,883 16
Figured,
Coloured
piece-rood*...ccorges
ackages 344
porges 239 34.719
27,8*4 77 44,961
8,800 1! ’183 2,iM
421
229 43,519
27,834
70.7
9,087
6,799
Turkey
Long red
clothc loth
. ... 193
164 11,776’"48 2J94 240
164 14,6693,036
17,6063,668
T-cloth bale* 17,808
Si 14,906
Print*
and chintz
Madapollams . ...corges 145
25? 8,041"*20
10.8fl
71 19,305
146
257 8,041??2
)0,8681,675
8264
Canvass
Cambrics bale*
corges 84 11,212 4 "770 69 11,9822496
Muslins
and 668 21.3K5 668 21,3164,441
Chowls ...jaconets bale*
. 1,360 14,812
504126,461 1,36014,3122,982
Handkerchiefs
Miscellaneous
piece corges
good*,
packages 1,086
553 2,660’150
77.853 161 269 46 3,742 38 7,733 2 660
16,040 428
544133,854
1,786
707 2,82947?1
98,858 6H9
20,179
Broad
cloth
Woollen
rood* bales
, .
Redtwist ’"m
183 40,504"’1 "71 "l22 i
182 99,641
40,3014>17
White
ditto 433 99,249 1 293 433 h,397
20,738
Yellow
Raw and
>ilk greentwist
. piculs
. 14S 82,847 0 146 22,8474.7CO
Hardware package* lino 20.695 341 20 6.849 6 230 "427 23 7,276 1.M6
(OIron
Steel . .. . ... piculs
k egs
. 8,718
69-227,901
2,433 872 5,"874
1,4784S612,3934.01M
50
1,1*027C
14211,806
356
680 ISO
36 871 2,13341,042
101 13,714
642 42,226
27W
8,650
8,797
5M1
.7
Muskets... ...
Machinery
Glass-ware . ...packages
...ccase*
orges
.
287 9,516" 6
617 20,634
1.420
191C8,’b:40 484 78,879
617 20,6344,299
Copper,
metal sheathing, 28.618"283 ’4^430 3 ""is "’34 "894 1,73933,8557,053
376 2 46,313
34528,700
Crocker;
Coal...... ...packages
... * 2,9774-1.257
4,510 9,500
14,473
49,663 ?i 49,020
2,233W315,1306 660 1,192 5 ?39 ?,?78 44,6039,292
377111,0.17
23,i:w
Brass
and copper-ware
...package* 368 10,979 3,193168,593 I 7 168 4.738
1,604185,54910^(13
S8.656
 From
SingaporeHong
From India From
China. From Europe. From Total Total
Coast Quantities Value
and
Batavia. Kong. from

Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales Bales

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Cases ValueCPackages
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Dollar*. Dollar*. Dollars Dollars Dollar*. Dollar*.
j andprecious
Jewellery
stones J3.277 M.277 4.849
Milbag. number 1.114,804S8.78*917.860 37I886 ?*97O
<260,<W0 l,898>i66.?04.090,988143,499
36,902 89.687
Mats 11.S37 78
83,84 193.6M 9 338,081
17.1W 92,9388,137383,937 7.888
Opium chests S2& 18 10,147 io,eto 1,400 364 214,81*44,7(9
Date* ,piculs 793 2.50S "64 ’"229 660 793 ?G<X M2
Shipchandlery package*
. 1.441 17.747 10 1M "no 2’X 1,805 18,900 3,938
Biscuits
... cases 146 67 80S
1,163
223
44,7*0
694
Liquor* .cambarls 18.887 657 8,2? ?88 4,567 20,667 9,317
73,696 3.763 80,969 16,869
Tin piculs 810 5,om 180 290.3U9
\m 28,400107,694 ’" 1 ’"26 64,4964O3.MS84,011
Chin*good* package* 731. 5.2SO 3S.364
40119,27*130,436 6SO3,488 24,95412S.868?t98
?,t98
Silk
chowls ,piece* 2M24 U9.S80 8.718 19.833 140,19)M,tO8to
Crape*
Silk
47
1,851 12.8S9St.007S61.07S4.16718,841 S9,9t 28t,M 6?493to
Goldthread’. cases CMS 81 4109
49 33.13S
787 S.587 41
1 269,771 11.083 I.t98
187 464,t(7
1,38810,210 8,911 663 19 40,701 74.638 96,788
Sundries
Cutlery
packages 16,664 1S8,O7
270 im 334 7. 403 657
38 10,600 1
2,(00
17,781 3,693
(S31,311.878S73.2OS
Mexicandollars
. ?S.Ml S51.4U 10U 482.S8I100,4*6
Gold
i leaf 14S,tOS S18^7 23,000 3 4OT 84
Fancygoods cue* 3 401
2,89S,2 1,8M,134 306,898 &8,?5 425,658 Tl?,697

Bangkok,March31,1865.
British Consulate, (Signed) THOMASGEORGEKNOX.Consul.
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(No. 5) Return of Exports in Foreign and Native Vessels from

Bangkok, during the Year 1864.

Piculs. Ticals. JKSterling.

I
Rice .. 2,409,748 j 7,229,2-14 903,630
Sugar.. 89,261 892,610 111,576
Sapanwood 97,490 ! 194,980 ! 2-1,37
Paddy 40,678 ! 110,940 13,876
Pease.. 979 4,384 ’ 5,485
Silk .. 927 ! 251,020 31,375
Tin .. 1,007 ! 38,266 4,783
Seelseed 26,927 | 107,708 ’ 13,463
Hemp 816 13,827 1,728
Hides . 4,197 41,477 5,185
Horns 3,966 32,694 4.087
Salt .. 148,121 i 80,796 I 10,09S
Salt fish 126,136 I 452,272 56,534-
Mussels ?,929 49,290 6,161
Teak .. 9,806 ! 120,930 15,116
Rosewood I 20,857 ! 41,714 5,214
Gum Benjamin 223 i 28,990 ! 3,624
Ivory . . 121 38,115 1.764
Cotton 19,290 771,760 9,645
Lukraban seed 2,117 4,234 529
Cardamums 1,265 i’ 94,875 11,859
Gamboge 89 6,293 787
Mangrove bark. ; 7,122 890
Pepper j 23,752 355,280 4-1,810
Sticklac j 13,331 226.627 28,328

1,317,922

(Signed) THOMAS GEORGE KNOX, Consul.

British Consulate, Bangkok, March 31, 1865.