On The Departure Of The Junks,
You May Buy 34 Or 35 Pecoos For A Dollar; Which, Before Next Year,
You
may sell at 22 or even 20 pecoos for a dollar; so that there is great
profit to be
Made on this traffic; but the danger of loss by fire is
great.
[Footnote 144: Cherringin, is probably that now called Cheribon on the
south side of Java; but Jauby is not to be recognised in our modern
maps. - E.]
The weight used in the purchase and sale of bezoars is called a taile
which is 2-1/4 dollars, or 2 English ounces. A Mallay taile is only
equal to 1-1/2 dollar, or 1-1/3 English ounces. A China taile is
1-7/20 dollars, or 1-1/5 English ounces; so that 10 China tailes are
exactly equal to 6 Javan tailes.
The English commodities vendible here are as follow: English iron in
long thin bars, sells for six dollars the pekul. Lead in small pigs,
5-1/2 dollars the pekul. The barrel of fine corned powder 25 dollars.
Square pieces sanguined 10 dollars each. Square pieces damasked all
over, 6-1/2 feet long, 15 dollars each.[145] Broad-cloth, of ten pounds
the cloth, of Venice red colour, sells for 3 dollars the gasse, which
is 3/4 of a yard. Opium misseree,[146] which is the best, 8 dollars
the cattee. Amber, in large beads, one wang and half a taile
mallay, for 6 dollars.
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