. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . ECUADORIAN HAND-MADE LACE. three shillings and fourpence (ten reals) was the price at theCapita] per pound for English salt. All glass and china was very ISO TRA VELS AMOXGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. ix. dear there, partly through the large amount of breakage in transit,from bad packing. Native productions were often by no means low in (when it could be got) was cheap, and generally rangedfrom twopence-halfpenny to threepence per pound. In the north,fresh eggs could be bought for four a penny ; while in Guayaquil,and in the more south
. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . ECUADORIAN HAND-MADE LACE. three shillings and fourpence (ten reals) was the price at theCapita] per pound for English salt. All glass and china was very ISO TRA VELS AMOXGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. ix. dear there, partly through the large amount of breakage in transit,from bad packing. Native productions were often by no means low in (when it could be got) was cheap, and generally rangedfrom twopence-halfpenny to threepence per pound. In the north,fresh eggs could be bought for four a penny ; while in Guayaquil,and in the more southern parts, one to two pesos apiece weredemanded for miserable chickens. Spirits of wine cost me threeshillings per pint at Guayaquil, and tenpence at Quito! AtOtovalo, Cayambe, and other places, brown sugar and unroastedcoffee were each tenpence per pound, though raised in the raisins cost three shillings, and camphor four shillingsper pound in The high prices of foreign commodities were attributed to ex-cessive duties and
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