Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat. Edmund Roberts

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       Edmund Roberts

      Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat

      In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CHAPTER X.

       CHAPTER XI.

       CHAPTER XII.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       CHAPTER XV.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       CHAPTER XX.

       Exports from the river Menam (Siam) during the year 1832, showing the quantity and market value of each article.

       CHAPTER XXI.

       CHAPTER XXII.

       CHAPTER XXIII.

       The following exhibits a Statement of the Naval Force of the Sultan of Muscat, showing the names of his largest vessels, with some of the smaller classes—the rates of each; where built, and where stationed in the month of October, 1833.

       CHAPTER XXIV.

       CHAPTER XXV.

       A Table, showing the names of the various places visited in rotation, on board the United States ships-of-war, Peacock and Lexington, from the eighth of March, 1832, to the twenty-fourth of April, 1834; together with the distances between each place, and the number of days at sea.

       APPENDIX.

       State of Commerce in the year 1833, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Condensed and brought into Form from Various Documents.

       Of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Malayan Peninsula, and particularly of the Negroes called Semang.

       TEA.

       Comparative Estimate of the principal Exports from Canton to the United States.

       Average Prices for Teas.

       Export of Teas for Account of the English Company, to London, season 1832-1833.

       Annual Revenue obtained by the Government of Siam from Farms and Duties.

       Statement of Annual Consumption and Value of Indian Opium in China, for the following Seasons:--

       Average Consumption of fifteen years, ending 31st March, 1832.

       Tumbah Tuah’s Letter of Thanks to Captain Geisinger, Bencoolen, August 31st, 1832.

       Translation of a Letter from the Sultan of Muscat to the President of the United States.

       Translation of the “Chinese Chop,” relative to the United States’ Sloop-of-war Peacock, D. Geisinger, Commander, and sent to the Hong-Merchants at Canton.

INTRODUCTION.

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      Having some years since become acquainted with the commerce of Asia and Eastern Africa, the information produced on my mind a conviction that considerable benefit would result from effecting treaties with some of the native powers bordering on the Indian ocean.

      With a view to effect an object apparently so important, I addressed a letter to the Hon. Levi Woodbury, then a Senator in Congress from the state of New