One hundred of them make one maz; and it is the only coin that is stamped with a die, for all the others circulate by weight.
_Ranquel_ are ten pieces of plate or crockery-ware.
_Pico_ is equivalent to one quintal, but has one arroba more than ours.

_Cate_ is a weight of twenty onzas.
The ship of the Portuguese carries from five to six hundred picos of white untwisted silk.

It costs at Canton eighty taes per pico delivered in Macan, and is sold in Xapon for one hundred and forty or one hundred and fifty taes.
Laden with _retros_ (the fine red silk), of four or five hundred picos of all colors, at a cost of one hundred and forty taes, it is sold in Xapon at three hundred and seventy and sometimes four hundred taes.
The common assorted _retros_ costs from fifty-five to sixty taes in Canton, according to its quality, and is sold in Xapon for one hundred taes.
The silk of the _darca_, of all colors, is worth forty taes in Canton, and is sold by the libra in Xapon at nine maces per cate.
The said ship will also carry from one thousand seven hundred to two thousand pieces of a certain silk worked with birds, and other pictures done in silk and unwoven silver.

[61] Each piece is worth up to eleven maces, and the fine ones up to fourteen.

They have seven, eight, and nine gaxos, and they are sold in Xapon for about two and one-half or three taes apiece.
It will take three or four thousand taes of gold.