They Bring Likewise Coarse Porcelain,
Drugs, And Various Other Commodities; But As These Are Not Suitable To
Our Country, I Omit To Mention Them, But The Following May Be
Enumerated:
Very good and white benjamins, from 30 to 35 dollars the
pekul; alum, from China, as good as English,
2-1/2 dollars the pekul.
Coromandel cloths are a principal commodity here, and those most
vendible are goobares; pintadoes or chintz, of four or five colours;
fine tappies from St Thomas; ballachos; Java girdles, otherwise
called caine-goolong; calico lawns; book calicos; and white calicos
made up in rolls.[147] A goobar is double, and contains 12 yards, or 6
hastaes single; coarse and fine ballachos contain from 32 to 34
hastaes, but the finest are always longest. In general, all sorts of
cotton cloths that are broad and of good length are here in good
request.
[Footnote 147: Probably turbans. - E.]
The king's custom, called chuckey, is 8 bags on the 100, rating pepper
always at 4 dollars the sack, whatever be its price. Billa-billian is
another custom of this port, by which every ship that arrives here,
whatever be its lading, as cloth or the like, must in the first place
give notice to the king of all the sorts and quantities of commodities,
with their several prices, before landing any of them; upon which the
king sends his officers to look at the goods, who take for him such
goods as he inclines, at half the prices affixed to them, or somewhat
more, as can be agreed upon:
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