[66] “Next, many watered camlets of Persia and Ormus, of all colours, made of the wool of large sheep that have not curled fleeces like ours.  Of it they make also good store of cloaks and capes, called by the Indians Mansans, and by the Portuguese ‘Ormus cambalis;’ they are made of the same wool, in bands of different colours, each four inches wide.  Everyone takes these to sea for a protection from the rain.  The tissue is the same as of cloth.”  It was called “camlet,” because made originally of camel’s hair.  See ut supra, ii, p. 240.

[67] The Venetian sequin, worth about 50 sols, which was silver money and circulated at Goa.  See ut supra, ii, p. 69.

[68] Crawfurd (Dict.  Indian Islands) says that this is the eagle-wood of commerce.  Its name in Malay and Javanese is kalambak or kalambah, but it is also known in these languages by that of gahru, or kayu-gahru, gahru-wood, a corruption of the Sanscrit Agharu.  This sweet-scented wood has been used immemorially as an incense throughout eastern countries, and was early introduced into Europe by the Portuguese.  The perfumed wood is evidently the result of a disease in the tree, produced by the thickening of the sap into a gum or resin.  The tree is confused with the aloes, but properly speaking has no connection with that tree; and the word agila has been wrongly translated into “eagle” [see above “aguila"].  The tree probably belongs to the order of Leguminosae.  The best perfumed or diseased wood is found in the mountainous country to the east of the Gulf of Siam, including Camboja and Cochinchina.  Castenheda says that at Campar, on the eastern side of Sumatra, are “forests which yield aloes-wood, called in India Calambuco (kalambak).  The trees which produce it are large, and when they are old they are cut down and the aloes-wood taken from them, which is the heart of the tree, and the outer part is agila.  Both these woods are of great price, but especially the Calambuco, which is rubbed in the hands, yielding an agreeable fragrance; the agila does so when burned.”  See Crawfurd, ut supra, pp. 6, 7, and Yule’s Cathay, ii, p. 472, note 1.

[69] Calambac:  the kalambac, or normal form of the wood called agila, is evidently meant here; see preceding note.

[70] See Vol.  IV, pp. 99, 100.

All the old books of voyages of eastern countries contain much on the buying and selling prices of various commodities.  See especially the notable Hakluyt Society publications.