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Page 48
... price given . Thus were sold two or three hundred books , also divers poems , pantuns , and such like . At that time . the histories stored up in Malacca were nearly exhausted , being sold by the people ; and what were only to be ...
... price given . Thus were sold two or three hundred books , also divers poems , pantuns , and such like . At that time . the histories stored up in Malacca were nearly exhausted , being sold by the people ; and what were only to be ...
Page 67
... price of provi- sions : three eggs for two wangs ( about one shilling ) , one fowl for a rupee , while vegetables and fish were not to be had ; the mud fish in the creeks , in all their filthiness , were thus finished . And at that time ...
... price of provi- sions : three eggs for two wangs ( about one shilling ) , one fowl for a rupee , while vegetables and fish were not to be had ; the mud fish in the creeks , in all their filthiness , were thus finished . And at that time ...
Page 118
... prices at which no one could buy . Thus one pine - apple would cost seven wangs ( 3s . 9d . ) , one durian two rupees . I myself have bought durians which were not perfect . Furniture was also very dear . To proceed . By the will of the ...
... prices at which no one could buy . Thus one pine - apple would cost seven wangs ( 3s . 9d . ) , one durian two rupees . I myself have bought durians which were not perfect . Furniture was also very dear . To proceed . By the will of the ...
Page 122
... price of labour was high , viz . one rupee a day . So at night a bag was required to carry the money for the payment of the labourers , and Mr. Raffles himself visited the works , to give directions Nor was to the overseers who had ...
... price of labour was high , viz . one rupee a day . So at night a bag was required to carry the money for the payment of the labourers , and Mr. Raffles himself visited the works , to give directions Nor was to the overseers who had ...
Page 147
... prices , on which one was offered at forty dollars , another at thirty ; I then went away . Then on the morrow I took a boat and went to the prow , which I found " chock full of slaves , to the number as above stated , male and female ...
... prices , on which one was offered at forty dollars , another at thirty ; I then went away . Then on the morrow I took a boat and went to the prow , which I found " chock full of slaves , to the number as above stated , male and female ...
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