Some of the gilded beds are generally sold for three or four hundred cruzados.

It carries many coverlets worked on frames; canopies, bed-curtains, and hangings; short cloaks of the same handiwork, made by the same Chinese; besides other trifles, and many gold chains exquisitely wrought.
The Portuguese pay duties at Malaca of seven and one-half per cent on the merchandise which they carry from China, without selling or unloading anything in that city.
They pay two or three thousand cruzados at Zeylao [_i.e._, Ceylon] for the support of the garrison stationed there.

For that purpose two or three fustas go to the ship and take it, in spite of itself, to the port, whence it does not sail until it pays that sum.

The reason given by the captain of that fort is, that the viceroy of Goa discounts that money from the duties.

The same is done with the ships which come from Bengala, as well as from all other parts from which it is necessary to pass that island (which is the island for cinnamon) in order to get to Goa.