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.
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Yer;!
much doubt whether we did lOBe anyth1n,g. The ps;rmenh
..11
came from
the
Chinele, except for our food, and the pereenta&e 1I'aB
BO EIIlll
that
1
t
would have been hard to spread. 1
t
ovel' our
budnua.
In
addj tiOD to the cOOIpradore
and
the
.'
curlt;, merchant,
another ofUeial 'II'as attached to
the
foreigner. Thie '1181
the
linguht.
He
w ...
not an interpreter at
m1i;ht
be .-uppoled.
He
wae striotl¥ speak_
ing
a CUltom house runner.
He
w.s
at the call of lobe foreign merchant
at
any
hour of
the
dq
or night. In the morn1I1&
he
hr01l€ht an account
of
the
boat loads of inward cargo
that
had
come
up
from
the
lhipi at
'
Illl'mpoa.
In
the
evenll:1&
he
came to get an account of
the tea. and
other
goods that were to go to
the
Ihlpi tbat night. For
.
hatnel'
purpose
you wanted the I1ngu1et.
he
lIIai alOVB on hand, whether for
pl~
or
blaine'I, and alwa,ya with
the
moe" inexhau.at.1ble patience.
All tran.aetlone with
the
HODg merchant. were by word of
mouth. then a ha.rpln was ooncluded,
epcb
entered
it
in
hi,
memor_
andum boole. and I never knew of a d1lpute
arld~.
Tbe bonelt,. of the
Chine,e
waf
rem·rkable. It bel been laid that it wa. onl¥ becau.e it
wal
lor
their intlrelt. PerhapI 10, but it 11 rem'rkable
that
thil
care for their interest, should neTer have gone to Ileep.
Ye~ rl
after
the
iIoDg
II¥ltel;l
bad
cea.ed to enst., foreigners were in the habit of
I8nding large suml, both in thl shape of money and opiWII. int.o t.he
coud;r)' dhtrich frQIII ,oocbow for the purchale of t.eal. I never k:n81l
a ca.e where eveQ' dollar wal not a.cco'Wlted for. Tbis wal the more re–
lI!8.J'.lcable becffill8 the cean. of calling them to account were Tel')" small.
And al enother inltance of their honelty I
ma,y
mention that. in
18!56,
when, in conlequence of the Englilh at.taCk on Canton, foreignerl were
obliged to leave with large amount.. of goodl in the Chine Ie p.ckbOusel,
nearly the whole 8I:IO'Wlt. _, acoounted for altb0u4:h
it
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