Outing . to India to filltheir holds with whatever cargoes came tohand. Meanwhile the Rajah slipped awayfor a second pepper voyage, and returnedwith a hundred and fifty thousand poundsof the precious condiment. There was no hiding this mystery fromSalem merchants for long, however, and bythe time the Rajah had made three peppervoyages, the rivals were at her heels, bar-tering with native chieftains and stowingtheir holds with the wild pepper whichlong continued to be one of the mostprofitable articles of the Salem commercewith the Orient. It was a fine romance oftrade, this story of Captain Ca
Outing . to India to filltheir holds with whatever cargoes came tohand. Meanwhile the Rajah slipped awayfor a second pepper voyage, and returnedwith a hundred and fifty thousand poundsof the precious condiment. There was no hiding this mystery fromSalem merchants for long, however, and bythe time the Rajah had made three peppervoyages, the rivals were at her heels, bar-tering with native chieftains and stowingtheir holds with the wild pepper whichlong continued to be one of the mostprofitable articles of the Salem commercewith the Orient. It was a fine romance oftrade, this story of Captain Carnes and theRajah, and characteristic of the men andmethods of the time. For half a centurya large part of the pepper used in all coun-tries was reshipped from the port of Salem,a trade which flourished until 1850. Duringthe period between the first voyage ofCaptain Carnes and 1845,tne Salem customhouse records bore the entries of almosttwo hundred vessels from the ports ofSumatra. (To be Continued.) 57;. THE COMING OF LAW TO THE FRONTIER BY ALLEN TRUE DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR
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