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Wherein are considered the riches of the spice trade of.
these Malucas Islands and the others.
These Malucas Islands give from year to year four thousand four hundred bares of cloves in clusters, which are called "selected," according to the relation which is made and the information given by Don Juan de Silva, knight of the habit of Santiago, when he governed the Filipinas Islands.

Others say that there are eight thousand, and still others, six.

The first statement is the most accurate, and agrees with another note made by Captain Gregorio de Vidana, a citizen of Manila; he was a person very learned in manuscripts, who spent many years there, and sought to inquire into the matter out of curiosity.
Four thousand four hundred bares of cloves, each bare containing 640 libras, amount to 2,816,000 libras--which at one ducado, the price at which they are sold [in Europe] will bring the same number of ducados.

All this can be bought for a hundred thousand ducados.