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.