APPENDIX I
TRADE ARTICLES AND THEIR VALUE IN THE NICOBARS
List of the principal articles imported by the traders for sale to the Kar Nicobarese:—
| Price in Coconuts. | ||
| Nickel-silver soup-ladle | 500 | pairs. |
| " long spoon | 500 | " |
| " table spoon and fork | 500 | " |
| " dessert spoon and fork | 300 | " |
| " tea spoon and small fork | 120 | " |
| " mustard spoon | 200 | " |
| Tumblers | 20-40 | pairs, according to size. |
| Decanters | 60-80 | " " " |
| China plates | 40-80 | " " " |
| " bowls | 40-80 | " " " |
| Enamelled plates | 40-80 | " " " |
| " cups | 40-80 | " " " |
| Matches, packet of 12 boxes | 24 | pairs. |
| Needles, 1 dozen | 12 | " |
| Thread, 1 dozen balls | 12 | " |
| Chinese tobacco, 1 packet | 40 | " |
| Tobacco, 1 bundle | 100 | " |
| Red cloth, 1 piece | 1200 | " |
| " 1 piece (Turkey) | 1600 | " |
| White calico, 1 piece | 800 | " |
| Chinese black cloth, 1 piece | 600 | " |
| Madras handkerchiefs, 1 piece | 800-2000 | pairs. |
| Fancy coloured chintz and saris | — | |
| " Bombay handkerchiefs | — | |
| Rice (1 bag of 2 maunds, Calcutta) | 300-500 | pairs. |
| " (1 bag of 3 maunds, Burma) | 500-600 | " |
| Chattis and pots | 10-40 | " |
| American knives | 80-120 | " |
| " " clasp | 20-60 | " |
| Burmese dáos | 40-200 | " |
| Table knives | 40-160 | " |
| Two-anna pieces | 8 | " |
| Rupee | 30-50 | " |
Wooden and tin clothes-boxes, looking-glasses, sugar, camphor, Epsom salts, Eno's fruit salt, turpentine, castor oil, cabin biscuits, etc.