Fine China Basons Without
Rims Are Likewise In Request, Together With Damasks Of Light Gay
Colours, Taffetas, Velvets, China-Boxes,
Gilded counters, gold chains,
gilt silver cups, bright and damasked head-pieces, fire-arms, but not
many sword blades, which
Must be brandt and backed to the point.
Likewise Cambaya cloths, black and red calicos, calico lawns, and rice,
which last is a good commodity to carry there.
[Footnote 150: On a former occasion, the Banda cattee was said to
contain only 13-1/2 ounces English, so that this account is quite
irreconcileable to the former. - E.]
The Molucca islands are five in number; viz. Molucca Proper, Ternate,
Tidore, Gilolo, and Makian, and are under the equinoctial line. They
produce great abundance of cloves, not every year, but every third year.
The cattee there is 3 libs. 5 ounces English, and the bahar is 200
cattees. Thus 19 Molucca cattees make exactly 50 Bantam cattees. The
commodities most vendible in these islands are Coromandel
cheremallays, but fine, Siam girdles or sashes, salalos, but fine,
ballachos and chelleys, are in most request. Likewise China
taffetas, velvets, damasks, great basons, varnished counters, crimson
broad-cloths, opium, benzoin, &c.
Siam is in the lat. of 14 deg. 30' N. It produces great store of fine
benzoin, and many rich precious stones, which are brought from Pegu. A
taile is 2-1/4 dollars. There is here much silver bullion, which comes
from Japan, but dollars are most in request, for 2-1/4 dollars in coin
will purchase the value of 2-1/2 dollars in bullion.
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