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“...everywhere respected by the insurgents. Some good crops,
therefore, especially of indigo, were obtained.
These considerations have temporarily exerted an influence on
the trade of the port, but it has always to be remembered that there
are permanent agencies at work which have undermined its
prosperity. The continued improvement of trade conditions on
the West River has gradually drawn to that route almost
the whole of the foreign trade with Kuangsi markets. Of
these latter, one of the busiest—Nanning—is itself now a treaty port.
No better proof of the increasing popularity of the West "River route
is wanted than the annual growth of the trade returns at Canton.
The black dotted line on the map accompanying this report shows
generally the northern limits of Pakhoi trade in 1907. From this
it will be seen that the trade is becoming almost entirely local in
character, and that, so far as Kuangsi is concerned, it is to all intents
and purposes extinct.
Value of trade.—The net value of the trade...”
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