The following commodities are to be bought in Japan, and at the rates here quoted.  Very good hemp, 100 cattees, being 120 pounds of Holland, are worth from sixty-five to seventy. 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.—­E.]

No.  I. Letter from Mr Richard Cocks, dated Firando, 10th December, 1614.[54]

To this day, I have been unable to complete my old books of accounts, owing to the dispatching of our people, some to one place and some to another, and owing to the rebuilding of our house, and afterwards buying a junk, and repairing her.  She is now ready to set sail for Siam, having been at anchor these ten days, waiting for a fair wind to proceed on her voyage, at Couchi, a league from Firando, where your ship rode at your departure from hence.  She is called the Sea-Adventure, of about 200 tons burden, in which Mr Adams goes as master, with Mr Wickham and Mr Edward Sayers as merchants, in consequence of the death of Mr Peacock, slain in Cochin-China, and the probability that Mr Carwarden has been cast away in his return from thence, as we have no news of him or of the junk in which he sailed, as I have at large informed the worshipful company.

[Footnote 54:  This letter appears to have been written to Captain Saris.—­E.]