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 182 COMMERCE WITH amount and distribution of this trade. Beginning with the western countries, there used to trade with Malacca, one junk from Em-ui of near 1000 tons burthen, which the unsettled state of Eu- ropean politics, affecting even those distant re- gions, with the competition of our colonial trade from India, have been the cause of discontinuing. In former times, a great many junks used to frequent Achin. This trade is now entirely at an end. Three junks, two from Em-ui of about 800 tons each, and one from the port of Chang- Urn of 500, annually trade to Lingen and the other Malay islands, at the eastern entrance of the Straits of Malacca. One junk from Em-ui, of 800 tons, trades with Tringanuy and another of 800 tons with Kalanten, both of them Malay states on the western shore of the Gulf of Siam. The kingdom of Siam, from the similarity of its products, from its vicinity to the countries of the Indian Archipe- lago, and from the productions of some of the lat- ter, which are tributary to it, passing through it to China, is looked upon by the Chinese as a portion of the group. The Chinese trade of Siam is chiefly carried on from the capital of the kingdom jBa^z^AoA', but with several Chinese ports of the provinces of Fo-kien and Quantang, as Em-ui, Chang-lim, Tyan-chiriy Limpo, Syang-hai, and Canton. There are employed in it ten junks of green prows of 600 tons each, and ten of red prows, some of which do