Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
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perfectly civil, but very curioW! .
The
IDlUldarlne received DB very cordially.
I explained to
them
that
w,
bad corae on
tt.e
faith of
the
recent treaty to
trade,
but
that
'11'8
did not
.
tall
to
do
anything
that.
'
IIa8 not entirely Ilbove
b08.l'd, and
that
'
lie bad , therefore , como to r, port oureelvee and to place OW–
.
elve. at their
orden.
W, .ere willing to
PB;1
the retp.Jl1U" duties on BveI¥–
thing
w,
bOU8ht
or
801
d,
They
replied
that
euch uonts.-nte did
ue
honor ,
that
we
were at perfect liberty to trade ae much ae '118 pleaUld, and
that
they would be
qu1
te 'II'1l11n,g to take our account Gt the du.t1e1 incurred,
1
I'e thanked the;n and. made
the
cacpl1menh
of uoge. and invited thet> to vis–
it
the
.
tea....er .
I
find I have spoken in the pl =al . but. there "a8 only one
head man , and he was
the
GovernoD General of the t'll'O province.
ot
Rupeh .
and ,
I
thiu ,
RwtWD..
It
wae
understood before we left
that
he
would call on board
the
eteamer
the
next lIIOrnlD&.
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our
boat ....1th a great deal of
cerel3O~ .
and
continually eurrour.ded b7
e~ormoul
crowdl . It ....al
ea~
to lee
tr~t
our r e_
eeption by the great man
had
much increased the relpeet ....1th which ....e
"
rei
regarded . I forgot to allY that dur11l& our via1t a collation
had
been eeI"fed.
Jhen ....e got on board again ....e began to
~ake
preparation. to receive the
great
~
the
ne~t
da¥ .
~
ship was put 1n apple pie order . and eveT7-
thiIl& cleaned and seoured until
1
t
abone again .
AbOu.t ten
the
next =rn1ll€ a bustle on the other Blde of the
river told u.s t o expect our guest. He e""",e i n great .tate
wit:".
a large
nWllber of boats ce.rrring hi, guard aIld
he,
bimaelt . Will., 1n one decorated
with blllUlere , arId propelled b7 a large nuz:lber of ro.....rs .
IIi'
whole IJcite
came on board and pretty ....ell filled
up
our decks . Atter
the
ullUal eompl1-
cent . . ....bieh are never omitted in an intervie .... . and a collation , in whicb
he
ahowed him,elf by DO means aver Ie to foreign cookery and wine. ,
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