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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

CHAPTER V
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The money will be gained once and a half over.
It will carry one hundred picos of quicksilver, which will gain seventy or eighty per cent.
It will carry five hundred picos of vermilion, which will gain as much as the quicksilver.
It will carry two or three [hundred ?] picos of sugar, and the money will be gained once and a half over.
It will carry one or two thousand picos of China-wood, the money invested for which will be increased two or three times.
It will carry two thousand picos of brass bracelets, which cost five taes six maces, and seven taes per pico delivered in Machan.

The money is doubled.

They are used in Bengala.
It will carry about two hundred picos of camphor, which goes to Portugal.
It carries a considerable quantity of earthenware of all sorts.

The money is gained once and a half over.
It carries a great number of gilded beds, tables, and writing desks.
Much fine colored unwoven silk.

It costs eighteen and nineteen maces and two taes per cate.


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