Coral In Large Branches, 5 Or 6 Dollars The
Taile Mallay.
Dollars are the most profitable commodity that can be
carried to Bantam.
[Footnote 145: These pieces were probably matchlocks. - E.]
[Footnote 146: Misseree here certainly means from Egypt. - E.]
In February and March every year, there come to Bantam three or four
junks from China, richly laden with raw silk, and wrought silks of
various stuffs, China cashes, porcelain, cotton cloth, and other
things. The prices of these are as follow: Raw silk of Lanking
[Nankin] which is the best, 190 dollars the pekul; raw silk of Canton,
which is coarser, 80 dollars the pekul; taffeta in bolts, 120 yards in
the piece, 46 dollars the corge, or 20 pieces; velvets of all colours,
13 yards the piece, for 12 dollars; Damasks of all colours, 12 yards the
piece, at 6 dollars; white sattins, in pieces of 12 yards, 8 dollars
each; Burgones, of 10 yards long the piece, 45 dollars the corge;
sleeve silk, the best made colours, 3 dollars the cattee; the best
musk, 22 dollars the cattee; the best sewing gold thread, 15 knots,
and every knot 30 threads, one dollar; velvet hangings with gold
embroidery, 18 dollars; upon sattins, 14 dollars; white curtain stuffs,
9 yards the piece, 50 dollars the corge; flat white damask, 9 yards
the piece, 4 dollars each; white sugar, very dry, 3-1/2 dollars the
pekul; very dry sugar-candy, 5 dollars the pekul; very fine broad
porcelain basons, 2 dollars the piece; coarse calico cloths, white or
brown, 15 dollars the corge.
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