These remarkable musical instruments are manufactured especially for this region, and frequently cost, as we were told, a thousand pounds sterling each.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Fifteen thousand a year for twenty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-four pounds sterling.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
"Moniteur," January 20th, 1855. "His Excellency Lord Cowley has just forwarded communications to the imperial government, respecting a despatch addressed to the Board of Admiralty, by Vice-Admiral Sir James sterling, commander of the British naval station in the Indian and Chinese seas.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot