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Brokers in Western Indian Port Cities Their Role in Servicing Foreign Merchants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

M. N. Pearson
M. N. Pearson
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The merchant who arrives in a locality unknown to him must also carefully arrange in advance to secure a reliable representative, a safe lodging house, and whatever besides is necessary, so that he is not taken in by a slow payer or by a cheat.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 455 - 472
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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