It will also carry about sixty or seventy picos of white sugar.  It costs fifteen maces per pico, and is sold in Xapon for three and four and one-half taes.  However, little of it is used, and the Japanese prefer the black.  The latter kind costs from four to six maces in Macan, and is sold for four, five, or six taes per pico in Xapon.  It forms an excellent merchandise, and the ship will carry one hundred and fifty or two hundred picos of it.

The captain of the ship will ask, for carrying the silk, ten per cent; and in order that the freight on the remainder of the merchandise may not be raised, five hundred dead taes are given him, besides sixty picos sold at its value there per pico.  That which is sold, and all the bulk of the silk that is unsold, and the five hundred taes are given him beforehand; while on the other merchandise mentioned above he is given ten per cent.

The said ship takes, on its return to Yndia, the aforesaid merchandise of loose white silk—­one thousand picos at the abovesaid prices.  They are sold in Yndia at about two hundred cruzados [63] per pico.

It will carry about ten or twelve thousand pieces of silk damasks and taffetas of all shades, bought at different prices.  The common price of the fine pieces of damask is five taes, and the very fine, six and seven; and the pieces are four varas long.  There are also some at four taes.  These damasks are also sold at various prices.  The greater part of them are sold among the natives.  The same is to be said of the pieces of taffeta as to their purchase and sale.

It will carry three or four picos of gold, bought in the manner aforesaid.  A profit of eighty or ninety per cent is also made on this among the natives.

It will carry five or six hundred picos of wrought and unwrought brass.  The money invested in this is doubled.  It is used among the natives.

It will carry six or seven picos of musk, which is used by the people of the country.  The money will be gained once and a half over.

It will carry one hundred picos of quicksilver, which will gain seventy or eighty per cent.

It will carry five hundred picos of vermilion, which will gain as much as the quicksilver.

It will carry two or three [hundred?] picos of sugar, and the money will be gained once and a half over.

It will carry one or two thousand picos of China-wood, the money invested for which will be increased two or three times.

It will carry two thousand picos of brass bracelets, which cost five taes six maces, and seven taes per pico delivered in Machan.  The money is doubled.  They are used in Bengala.

It will carry about two hundred picos of camphor, which goes to Portugal.

It carries a considerable quantity of earthenware of all sorts.  The money is gained once and a half over.

It carries a great number of gilded beds, tables, and writing desks.