Meanings (ES + gloss)
sobrecargo
An officer on board a merchant ship who is in charge of the cargo and its sale; also, if there are two of such officers, the senior one, the other being the subcargo.
What office the said foreigner, Elliot, now holds from the said nation? In what respects would he come to Canton to superintend the foreign merchants? Why a chief supracargo does n…
[T]here would be little or no opportunity for the seamen to savour the pleasures of dry land. This was a privilege allowed by the Chinese authorities only to a specific group of pa…
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