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.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
abued because he
had.
put dolll1 bie cow aDd dO£ at ext.ra'ncent pricee,
$600 and
$100,
I be11.,.e.
It
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iDtI,ery with Captain l:11ot, and I lUll not lIlU'e that C.ptain !11ot wa.
not accused of aherine the plunder With
him.
It i. difficult at thi.
dhtance of
time
to undentan4 the rea.on for thla ma11cnity.
The
price. for t.he
doc
and cow are not .,e17 le.rge in a place .here they
could not be replaced, ud fe., or none, of hill
detr~tor.
would ha.,e
undercone what. he did for
$15,m.
hrhaol... WON abould be .aid about tbl fOrlll and arrllll«_nta
for do1nc buaine •• in Canton. fhey ha.,e, howu...er, been .0 wall and
fully ducr1bed b¥ Mr . Hunter
in
hil 'i'anklreP that 1t .ellllli hardq
necell&r7 to
e~
more than a tew word.. Since 1745 Canton bal been
the on17 port
ot
Cbina open to for.igo trade, aDd the Chine.e Qo.,ernment.
part17
trG&
their Jealouly of foreignere, and partl1 frOlll a delire to
protect them.elvel from
c~lication.
with foreien nat.ionl, had aur–
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were like a parcel of little bOJa who.e propen.itlel to eood suet be
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ot
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