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“...started by Japanese
who own several distilleries, but the Chinese have now as many as
17, and others are in process of construction. They are very
primitive establishments, each containing a couple of retorts, and
there appears to be much waste of time and labour due to the
crudity of the system employed. Steam, for example, was rising
from the cooling tanks in which the copper worms were immersed.
Several British merchants at Foochow informed me that owing
to the frequent fluctuations in the value of camphor, they preferred
to take no part in this trade. Most of the Foochow output falls
into the hands of Parsee merchants in Hong-Kong, by whom it
is exported to India. Several attempts have been made by
foreigners to create new industries in Foochow, but without success.
A match factory and a saw mill, both British, have recently been...”
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