The man's grey eyes had a pecul - iarly deadly quality. ❋ Arthur, Robert (1964)
It is brought from the vicinity of the volcanoes in Bisayas: the best is said to come from Leyte, which is worth about one and a quarter dollar per pecul. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
Who made it a regular rule, in their transactions with the native dealer, to get 130 _catties_ of pepper to the _pecul_, thus cheating him of thirty per cent, of his property? ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
The pecul is equal to 140 lbs. English, or 137 1/2 lbs. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
This tin finds its way, like every thing else in the Archipelago, to Singapore, where it has of late fetched only thirteen dollars and a half _per pecul_. ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
Manilla in large quantities for that purpose, for the China market, it has become a peculiar business of itself by the dealers in it, and varies in price, according to quality, from fifteen to thirty dollars per pecul of 140 lbs. English. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
Here, the natives come off to passing ships, and bring fowls at two rupees per dozen; (a rupee here is equal to 1s. 8d. sterling;) ducks at three rupees per dozen; good-sized turtle one dollar each; yams one dollar per _pecul_ of 133 lbs.; eggs one dollar per hundred; and other articles in proportion. ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
They are sold by the cavan, weighing nearly a pecul, if of good quality, at about two dollars per cavan. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
The price of white rice is rarely below two dollars per pecul, or above two and a half dollars per pecul, bagged and ready for shipment. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
To understand this table, suppose an agent in Manilla purchases a quantity of hemp for a merchant in London, at 5 dollars per pecul, the cost of packing, shipping, and the 5 per cent. commission for buying, ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
The best is now grown in Cebu, although, from Samar, Misamis, and Batangas, the Manilla market is also supplied, but it is only saleable at about twenty-three dollars per pecul, while the Cebu grown fetches about twenty-seven dollars per pecul. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
English, and it is either paid for at the time of its delivery, or if a contract is made for a large quantity with a clayer, or other dealer, it is often necessary to advance a portion of the price to enable him to execute the order, and the merchants often do this long before a pecul of sugar is received from him, or any security given in return. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
The hand-spun rope never sells so well as that made by machinery, and is usually obtainable at from one to two dollars per pecul less than the latter, according as it is well or ill spun. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
They employ Chinese miners, to whom they pay six dollars for every _pecul_ of tin delivered on the coast in a pure state, which they sell readily in Java for sixteen dollars per _pecul_; thus getting ten dollars clear profit, less about half a dollar per _pecul_, which it costs to send the tin to Batavia for sale. ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
The price of this rope is altogether dependent on the price of hemp, as the value of the labour employed seldom or never varies, although the raw material of which it is composed constantly does; the usual addition made to the current price of hemp being four dollars a pecul of 140 lbs. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
All sugar is sold to the export merchants by the pecul of 140 lbs. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
As it is very much more loosely twisted than any other descriptions of rope made here, the charge for spinning it is reduced to two dollars per pecul, and the cost of it will be that amount added to the price of hemp at the time of its manufacture. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
The hemp employed in the manufacture of the patent cordage is generally selected for its length of fibre, and lightness or whiteness of colour; and when whale-lines are made, only the very finest lots of hemp procurable at the time are used; but the charge for spinning them is increased to six dollars a pecul, the extra labour being so considerable, that even with the additional charge, the maker, ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
At a guess, however, I should suppose that about a million cavans, each of which, one with another, weighs about a China pecul, or 133 1/3 lbs, is an average yearly export, should the Government not prohibit the article from being exported for a longer period than usual, which is annually regulated by the scarcity or abundance of food in the country. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
Export duty on valuation, which can generally be managed to be got at a good deal under the market price; say at $1-1/2 per pecul, at 4-1/2 per cent. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
