In regard to goods from China, the best raw silk is made at Nankin, and is called howsa, being worth there 80 dollars the pekul.  The best taffeta, called tue, is made at a small town called Hoechu, and is worth 30 dollars the corge.  The best damask, called towa, is made at Canton, and is worth 50 dollars the corge.  Sewing gold, called kimswa, is sold by the chippau, or bundle, each containing ten pahees; and in each paper are ten knots or skeins, sold for three pawes, or two dollars, the best having 36 threads in each knot.  Sewing silk, called couswa, is worth 100 dollars the pekul.  Embroidered hangings, called paey, are worth for the best 10 dollars the piece.  Sattins, called lyn, are worth for the best one dollar the piece.  Great porcelain basons, Called chopau, are sold three for a dollar.  White sugar, called petong, the best is sold for half a dollar the pekul.  The small sorts of porcelain, called poa, of the best sort, sell for one dollar the cattee.  The best pearl boxes, called chanab, are worth five dollars each.  Sleeve silk, called jounckes, the best sells for 150 dollars the pekul.  Musk, called saheo, seven dollars the cattee.  Cashes, 60 pecoos for one dollar.

Broad-cloth, called toloney, is worth seven dollars the sasocke, which is 3/4 of a yard.  Large mirrors, called kea, are worth 10 dollars each.  Tin, called sea, worth 15 dollars the pekul.  Wax, called la, 15 dollars the pekul.  Muskets, called cauching, each barrel worth 20 dollars.  Japan sabres or cattans, called samto, are worth 8 dollars each.  The best and largest elephants teeth, called ga, worth 200 dollars the pekul, and small ones 100 dollars.  White saunders, called toawheo, the best large logs sell for 40 dollars the pekul.

In China, the custom of pepper inwards is one taile upon a pekul, but no custom is paid outwards.  Great care is taken to prevent carrying any kind of warlike ammunition out of the country.  In March, the junks bound for Manilla depart from Chuchu, in companies of four, five, ten, or more, as they happen to be ready; their outward lading being raw and wrought silks, but of far better quality than those they carry to Bantam.  The ordinary voyage from Canton to Manilla is made in ten days.  They return from Manilla in the beginning of June, bringing back dollars, and there are not less than forty sail of junks yearly employed in this trade.  Their force is absolutely nothing, so that the whole might be taken by a ship’s boat.  In China this year, 1608, pepper was worth 6-1/2 tailes the pekul, while at the same time it was selling in Bantam for 2-1/2 dollars the timbang.

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Second Voyage of the English East India Company, in 1604, under the Command of Captain Henry Middleton.[152]