Stammel
Broad-Cloth, Iron, And Handsome Mirrors Are In Much Request, As Also All
Kinds Of Chinese Commodities Are To Be Had There Better And Cheaper Than
At Bantam.
The Guzerat vessels come to Siam in June and July, touching
by the way at the Maldive islands, and then at Tanasserim, whence they
go overland to Siam in twenty days.
At Tanasserim there is always 5-1/2
to 6 fathoms water.
Borneo is in lat. 3 deg. S.[151] This island affords great store of gold,
bezoar, wax, rattans, cayulacca, and dragons blood. At Bernermassin,
[Banjarmassen] one of the towns of this island, is the chief trade for
these articles; and at this place the following commodities are in
principal request: Coromandel cloths of all kinds, China silks,
damasks, taffetas, velvets of all colours but black, stammel
broad-cloths, and Spanish dollars. Bezoars are here sold by a weight
called taile, equal to a dollar and a half, and cost 5 or 6 dollars
the taile, being 1-1/3 ounce English. Succadanea is another town in
Borneo, in lat. 1 deg. 30' S. and is about 160 leagues N.E. of Bantam. The
entrance to its harbour has five fathoms water at the height of the
flow, and three at ebb, only a falcon shot from the shore, upon ooze.
There is great trade at this place, which produces great quantities of
the finest diamonds in the world, which are to be had in abundance at
all times of the year, but chiefly in January, April, July, and October,
but the greatest quantities in January and April, when they are brought
down the river Lavee in proas.
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