It costs delivered in Macan three taes per pico, and is sold in Xapon for nine or ten taes per pico, thus tripling the money.
It will also carry about sixty or seventy picos of white sugar.

It costs fifteen maces per pico, and is sold in Xapon for three and four and one-half taes.

However, little of it is used, and the Japanese prefer the black.

The latter kind costs from four to six maces in Macan, and is sold for four, five, or six taes per pico in Xapon.

It forms an excellent merchandise, and the ship will carry one hundred and fifty or two hundred picos of it.
The captain of the ship will ask, for carrying the silk, ten per cent; and in order that the freight on the remainder of the merchandise may not be raised, five hundred dead taes are given him, besides sixty picos sold at its value there per pico.