Eye-Colours For Dying Blue,
Almost As Good As Indigo, Made Up In Round Cakes, And Packed 100 Cakes
In A Fardel, Worth Fifty To Sixty.
Dye-stuff for white, turning to red
colour, made up in fardels of fifty gautins malios, worth five to
eight.
Very good white rice, cased, worth, the fares, eight
three-fifths. Rice of a worse sort, the bale, worth seven three-tenths.
At Jedo, Osaka, and Miaco, there is the best dying of all sorts of
colours, as red, black, and green; and for gliding gold and silver, is
better than the Chinese varnish. Brimstone is in great abundance, and
the pekul may be bought for seven. Saltpetre is dearer in one place than
another, being worth one and a half. Cotton-wool, the pekul, may be
bought for ten.
Sec.15. Supplementary Notices of Occurrences in Japan, after the Departure
of Captain Saris.[53]
"This subdivision consists entirely of letters from Japan, and conveys
some curious information respecting the transactions of the English in
Japan, whence they have been long excluded. They are now perhaps of some
interest, beyond the mere gratification of curiosity, as, by the entire
expulsion of the Dutch from India, there seems a possibility of the
British merchants in India being able to restore trade to that distant
country. In the Third PART of our Collection, various other relations
of Japan will be inserted." - E.
[Footnote 53: These are appended in the Pilgrims, vol. I. pp. 406 - 413,
to the observations of Mr. Richard Cocks, already given in conjunction
with the voyage of Captain Saris.
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