The greater part of them are sold among the natives.

The same is to be said of the pieces of taffeta as to their purchase and sale.
It will carry three or four picos of gold, bought in the manner aforesaid.

A profit of eighty or ninety per cent is also made on this among the natives.
It will carry five or six hundred picos of wrought and unwrought brass.

The money invested in this is doubled.

It is used among the natives.
It will carry six or seven picos of musk, which is used by the people of the country.