Sp. dol. cents. Total dol.
Brought forward . . . 10,347
Ditto, coarse . 35 koyans—55 • — . . 1775
Salt . . . . 20 — —27 — • • 540
Oil . . . . 150 piculs -— 5 66 . . 849
Stick-lac . . 150 — —13 — . , 1950
Nankins. . 1000 pieces —60 — perlOO 600
Tobacco . . 25 piculs —16 —perpicul400
Salt fish . . . 50 — — 5 — . . 250
Total Spanish dollars . 16,711
The largest branch of the trade of the Indian
islanders with Singapore, is that of the Bugis of
Wajo, a State of Celebes, the inhabitants of which
have colonized in many countries of the Archipelago,
and carry on what may be called the
whole foreign trade of the countries in which they
are settled. Through their means Singapore carries
on a trade with Wajo, Mandar, Kaili, Macassar,
and Pari-pari in Celebes, Bonirati, a small
island on its coast, the islands of Sumbawa, Bali,
Lombok, Flores, Sandal Wood, Timor, Ceram, the
Arrows, New Guinea, and the east and west coasts
of Borneo. The commodities of these different
countries are imported by the Bugis into Singapore.
The following is a brief enumeration of
th em :—striped and tartan cotton cloths (chiefly
from Celebes, Bali, and Lombok), oil, rice, sapan-
wood, tortoise-shell, esculent nests, the holothurion,
birds of paradise, and a great variety of live birds
of the parrot tribe, of singular beauty of plumage.
Above a hundred of the proas of the Bugis make
an annual voyage to Singapore, each importing a
cargo worth from twelve to thirty thousand Spanish
dollars. Their exports consist chiefly of
opium, British and Indian piece-goods, woollens,
fire-arms and gunpowfler, with Chinese earthenware,
and Siamese culinary iron utensils.
In the north-western portion of the Malayan
archipelago, the most distant point with which
Singapore carries on a trade in native vessels, is
the principality on the island of this name strictly
called Borneo, together with the district lying
west of it. In 1825, forty proas, many of them of
great size, belonging to this people, visited Singapore,
importing tortoise-shell, esculent swallows’
nests, mother of pearl shells, Malayan camphor, a
very considerable quantity of pepper, and recently
large quantities of ore of antimony; and exporting
opium, iron, cottons, and woollens. The trade
of Sumatra, the Malayan peninsula, and the islands
adjacent to both, is, owing to vicinity and facility
of communication, of very considerable extent. In
this intercourse are imported tin, pepper, crude
sago, benjamin, lakka, and eagle-wood, catechu,
areca-nuts, bricks, tiles, timber, fruits, poultry, &c.
&c. Through the exportations of this branch are
disseminated the products of Europe and the continent
of India, already referred to. In this traffic
is to be included the trade carried on between