'Trade', I was reminded in recently reading Martha Chaiklin's _Cultural
Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture; the Influence of European
Material Culture on Japan 1700-1850_, encompasses many activities.
With best wishes for 2006 to all,
Pat
(who is still, most improperly, giggling at the use of goats as "mules"
to smuggle ginseng)
--
Pat Reynolds
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"It might look a bit messy now,
but just you come back in 500 years time"
(T. Pratchett)