On This Account, Therefore, When Intending To
Sail For Succadanea, It Is Best To Go In The First Place To
Banjermassen, where you may exchange your commodities for gold, which
you may purchase at the rate of three cattees of
Cashes the Mallayan
taile, which is nine dollars, as I have been credibly informed it has
been worth of late years. Afterwards carrying the gold to Succadanea,
and paying it away for diamonds, at four cattees of cashes the
taile, each of which is the weight of 1-3/4 and 1/8 of a dollar, you
gain 3/4 of a dollar on each taile: Yet, after all, the principal
profit must be upon the diamonds.
The diamonds of Borneo are distinguished into four waters, which they
call varna, viz. Varna Ambon, varna Loud, varna Sackar, and
varna Bessee. These are respectively white, green, yellow, and a
colour between green and yellow; but the white water, or varna ambon,
is the best. Their weights are called Sa-masse, Sa-copang, Sa-boosuck,
and Sa-pead: 4 copangs are a masse; 2 boosucks a copang; and 1-1/2
pead is a boosuck. There is a weight called pahaw, which is four
masse, and 16 masse are one taile. By these weights both diamonds
and gold are weighed.
In regard to goods from China, the best raw silk is made at Nankin,
and is called howsa, being worth there 80 dollars the pekul. The best
taffeta, called tue, is made at a small town called Hoechu, and is
worth 30 dollars the corge.
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