| They beat the old man, threw him into the water, and robbed him of a tael of gold. |
| Its value in Manilla varies, according to quality, at from twenty dollars a tael down to fourteen for the inferior sorts. |
| He said also that at Ichang it was very shocking how few cash they gave for the tael. |
| In 1877, it was bought by the Chinese Merchant Steam Navigation Co for 220 million tael. |
| The one-and-a-half-million tael facility was donated anonymously to the municipality by a British businessman, believed to be a leading philanthropist of the time. |
| The construction fee plus the cost of equipment reached over 50,000 tael. |
