china basons without rims are likewise in request, together with damasks of light gay colours, taffetas, velvets, china-boxes, gilded counters, gold chains, gilt silver cups, bright and damasked head-pieces, fire-arms, but not many sword blades, which must be brandt and backed to the point.  Likewise Cambaya cloths, black and red calicos, calico lawns, and rice, which last is a good commodity to carry there.

[Footnote 150:  On a former occasion, the Banda cattee was said to contain only 13-1/2 ounces English, so that this account is quite irreconcileable to the former.—­E.]

The Molucca islands are five in number; viz.  Molucca Proper, Ternate, Tidore, Gilolo, and Makian, and are under the equinoctial line.  They produce great abundance of cloves, not every year, but every third year.  The cattee there is 3 libs. 5 ounces English, and the bahar is 200 cattees.  Thus 19 Molucca cattees make exactly 50 Bantam cattees.  The commodities most vendible in these islands are Coromandel cheremallays, but fine, Siam girdles or sashes, salalos, but fine, ballachos and chelleys, are in most request.  Likewise China taffetas, velvets, damasks, great basons, varnished counters, crimson broad-cloths, opium, benzoin, &c.

Siam is in the lat. of 14 deg. 30’ N. It produces great store of fine benzoin, and many rich precious stones, which are brought from Pegu.  A taile is 2-1/4 dollars.  There is here much silver bullion, which comes from Japan, but dollars are most in request, for 2-1/4 dollars in coin will purchase the value of 2-1/2 dollars in bullion.  Stammel broad-cloth, iron, and handsome mirrors are in much request, as also all kinds of Chinese commodities are to be had there better and cheaper than at Bantam.  The Guzerat vessels come to Siam in June and July, touching by the way at the Maldive islands, and then at Tanasserim, whence they go overland to Siam in twenty days.  At Tanasserim there is always 5-1/2 to 6 fathoms water.

Borneo is in lat. 3 deg.  S.[151] This island affords great store of gold, bezoar, wax, rattans, cayulacca, and dragons blood.  At Bernermassin, [Banjarmassen] one of the towns of this island, is the chief trade for these articles; and at this place the following commodities are in principal request:  Coromandel cloths of all kinds, China silks, damasks, taffetas, velvets of all colours but black, stammel broad-cloths, and Spanish dollars.  Bezoars are here sold by a weight called taile, equal to a dollar and a half, and cost 5 or 6 dollars the taile, being 1-1/3 ounce English.  Succadanea is another town in Borneo, in lat. 1 deg. 30’ S. and is about 160 leagues N.E. of Bantam.  The entrance to its harbour has five fathoms water at the height of the flow, and three at ebb, only a falcon shot from the shore, upon ooze.  There is great trade at this place, which produces great quantities of