ships, it is as it were about Christmas:
and when they haue customed their goods, then must they sell them for their
credits sake for a moneth or two: and then at the beginning of March the
ships depart. The Marchants that come from S. Tome take for the paiment of
their goods, gold and siluer, which is neuer wanting there. [Sidenote: Good
instructions.] And 8. or 10. daies before their departure they are all
satisfied: also they may haue Rubies in paiment, but they make no accompt
of them: and they that will winter there for another yere, it is needfull
that they be aduertized, that in the sale of their goods, they specifie in
their bargaine, the terme of two or 3. moneths paiment, and that their
paiment shal be in so many Ganza, and neither golde nor siluer: because
that with the Ganza they may buy and sel euery thing with great aduantage.
And how needfull is it to be aduertized, when they wil recouer their
paiments, in what order they shal receiue their Ganza? Because he that is
not experienced may do himselfe great wrong in the weight of the Gansa, as
also in the falsenesse of them: in the weight he may be greatly deceiued,
because that from place to place it doth rise and fall greatly: and
therefore when any wil receiue money or make paiment, he must take a
publique wayer of money, a day or two before he go about his businesse, and
giue him in paiment for his labour two Byzaes a moneth, and for this he is
bound to make good all your money, and to maintaine it for good, for that
hee receiueth it and seales the bags with his scale: and when hee hath
receiued any store, then hee causeth it to bee brought into the Magason of
the Marchant, that is the owner of it.

That money is very weightie, for fortie Byza is a strong Porters burden;
and also where the Marchant hath any payment to be made for those goods
which he buyeth, the Common wayer of money that receiueth his money must
make the payment thereof. So that by this meanes, the Marchant with the
charges of two Byzes a moneth, receiueth and payeth out his money without
losse or trouble. [Sidenote: The marchandizes that goe out of Pegu.] The
Marchandizes that goe out of Pegu are Gold, Siluer, Rubies, Saphyres,
Spinelles, great store of Beniamin, long peper, Leade, Lacca, rice, wine,
some sugar, yet there might be great store of sugar made in the Countrey,
for that they haue aboundance of Canes, but they giue them to Eliphants to
eate, and the people consume great store