'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)