THE  PROVINCES  AND  THE  TREATY  PORTS  249

Imports.  Exports.  Total.
Tls.  Tls.  Tls.
1864  .  .  7,134,000  13,124,000  (487)  20,258,000
1874  -  4,668,220  15,406,672(683)  20,074,892
1884  ..  5,038,689  8,508,752(680)  13,547,441
1894  ..  6,425,919  7,025,013  (487)  13,450,932
1904  ..  10,048,966  7,217,002  (293)  17,265,968

These  are  the  figures  for  the  trade  by  steamer,  to  which
in  1904,  to  get  the  total  trade  of  the  port,  must  be  added
the  value  of  the  junk  trade,  imports  Tls.3,134,173,  exports
Tls.8,316,932,  total  Tls.il,451,105.  During  the  year  1904
the  principal  imports,  by  steamer  and  junk,  were  cotton
fabrics  (Tls.810,000  for  foreign,  and  Tls.584,000  for  native
weaving),  cotton  yarn  (Tls.  1,011,000),  tin  (Tls.  159,000),
kerosene  oil  (Tls.747,000),  sugar  (Tls.  309,000),  beans
(Tls.516,000),  bean-  and  tea-oil  (Tls.475,000),  and  wheat
(Tls.485,000).  The  principal  exports  were  tea  (value,
including  Santuao  tea,  Tls.7,117,000),  soft-wood  timber
(Tls.4,736,000),  edible  bamboo  shoots  (Tls.919,000),  paper
(Tls.3,612,000)  ;  among  other  noted  products  of  the  port
are  lacquered  ware  and  ornaments  carved  from  soapstone.
Amoy  (24 0  27'  N.,  118 0  5'  E.),  a  city  of  300,000  inhabitants ­
  on  an  island  of  the  same  name,  serves  as  steamer
port  for  the  prefectures  of  Chuanchow  (Chinchew)  and
Changchow.  The  outer  anchorage  offers  good  holdingground,
  but  is  exposed  to  the  south-west,  while  the  inner
harbor  affords  perfect  shelter,  except  from  typhoons  which,
getting  in,  are  unable  to  find  their  way  out.  The  inner
harbor,  with  a  width  of  a  third  to  a  half-mile,  lies  between
Amoy,  on  which  are  the  business  offices,  and  the  rocky
island  of  Kulangsu,  which  constitutes  the  foreign  residential
quarter.  The  municipal  organisation  was  of  the  headless
and  unsanctioned  kind  until  1903,  when  Kulangsu  was
made  an  International  Settlement  with  powers  of  selfgovernment,
  much  on  the  Shanghai  model.  In  1899  a
Japanese  concession  was  marked  out  on  the  Amoy  side,
but  has  not  been  developed.  At  the  upper  end  of  the