Fine Bayes Of The Before-Mentioned Colours Are Saleable, If
Well Cottoned, But Not Such As Those Of Portugal.
Sayes, rashes,
single and double bouratts, silk grograms, Turkey grograms; camblets,
Divo Gekepert, Weersetynen, Caniaut, Gewart twijne;[52] velvets,
Musk,
sold weight for weight of silver; India cloths of all sorts are in
request; satins, taffetas, damasks, Holland linen from fifteen to twenty
stivers the Flemish ell, but not higher priced; diaper, damasks, and so
much the better if wrought with figures or branches; thread of all
colours; carpets, for tables; gilded leather, painted with figures and
flowers, but the smallest are in best demand; painted pictures, the
Japanese delighting in lascivious representations, and stories of wars
by sea or land, the larger the better worth, sell for one, two, or three
hundred. Quick-silver, the hundred cattees sell from three to four
hundred.
[Footnote 50: This forms a part of the Appendix to the Voyage of Saris,
Purch. Pilg. I. 394; where it is joined to the end of observations by
the same author on the trade of Bantam, formerly inserted in this
Collection under their proper date. - E.]
[Footnote 51: This account is very vaguely expressed; but in the title
in the Pilgrims, the sales are stated to be in masses and
canderines, each canderine being the tenth part of a masse. The
information contained in this short subdivision is hardly intelligible,
yet is left, as it may possibly be of some use towards reviving the
trade of Japan, now that the Dutch are entirely deprived of their
eastern possessions.
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