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.

Much fine colored unwoven silk. It costs eighteen and nineteen maces
and two taes per cate. Some of the gilded beds are generally sold for
three or four hundred cruzados. It carries many coverlets worked on
frames; canopies, bed-curtains, and hangings; short cloaks of the
same handiwork, made by the same Chinese; besides other trifles,
and many gold chains exquisitely wrought.

The Portuguese pay duties at Malaca of seven and one-half per cent
on the merchandise which they carry from China, without selling or
unloading anything in that city.

They pay two or three thousand cruzados at Zeylao [_i.e._, Ceylon]
for the support of the garrison stationed there. For that purpose
two or three fustas go to the ship and take it, in spite of itself,
to the port, whence it does not sail until it pays that sum. The
reason given by the captain of that fort is, that the viceroy of Goa
discounts that money from the duties. The same is done with the ships
which come from Bengala, as well as from all other parts from which it
is necessary to pass that island (which is the island for cinnamon)
in order to get to Goa. They pay eight and one-half per cent at Goa,
both for entrance and for clearance; and the same is true at Malaca,
going and coming to [India?] But they do not pay in [Macan?] because
they return thither.

When the ship sails from Goa to China, it carries silver in money
and in wrought pieces (as I saw), of these two or three thousand;
ivory, velvet from Espana and other places, and fine scarlet cloth
[_grana_]; one hundred and fifty or two hundred pipes of wine; about