The Emperor Took All Our Ordnance,
With Most Of Our Lead, And Ten Barrels Of Gunpowder, With Two Or Three
Pieces Of Broad-Cloth.
Most of our other broad-cloths are sold, namely,
black, hair-colour, and cinnamon-colour, at fifteen, fourteen, thirteen,
And twelve tayes the tattamy; but they will not even look at
Venice-reds and flame-colours, neither are stammels in such request as
formerly, but they enquire much for whites and yellows. As the Dutch
sold most of their broad-cloths at low prices, we were forced to do so
likewise. In regard to our Cambaya goods, they will not look at our red
Zelas, blue byrams, or dutties, being the principal part of what is
now left us; and only some white bastas sell at fourteen or fifteen
masses each. Cassedys nill, alleias, broad pintados, with spotted,
striped, and checquered stuffs, are most in request, and sell at good
profit. We have also sold nearly half of our Bantam pepper for
sixty-five masse the pekull, and all the rest had been gone before
now, had it not been for the war. I am in great hope of procuring trade
into China, through the means of Andrea, the China captain, and his two
brothers, who have undertaken the matter, and have no doubt of being
able to bring it to bear, for three ships to come yearly to a place near
Lanquin,[56] to which we may go from hence in three or four days with
a fair wind.
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