The Japanese use a considerable quantity of it....

It is brought refined from there and is carried by way of Yndia to Portugal, where each ba[r ?] is worth six [maces ?] seven conderins.
The ship will carry, moreover, two hundred or three hundred picos of cotton thread.

It costs seven taes per pico delivered in Macan, and is sold in Xapon for sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen.
It will carry three thousand _cangalas_ [_i.e._, pieces of buckram], which are pieces of cotton, most of them white, while the rest are black and in colors.

They cost various prices, the large pieces costing twenty-eight taes per hundred.

It is sold in Xapon at fifty and fifty-four taes per hundred.