173 remain very sturdy. All their ropes and shrouds are made of canes which grow locally. The Javanese bring a lot of rice; beef; sheep; pigs; deer; pork; many chickens; garlic; onions, and they also bring many weapons: spears; shields; very well-damascened short, curved swords with inlaid steel. They also bring many other trinkets and plenty of gold, which comes from the kingdom of Java. These Javanese make their living from sailing: they bring their wives and children on their ships; their house; family; they do not have any other houses and they never leave their boats, only to go ashore to trade, and they die on their boats. When they sell the merchandise I have referred to for a good price in Malacca, they return with Pulicat and Maliapor cloths, and other Cambay cloths; opium; rose-waters; vermillion; many scarlets; silk thread; saltpetre; iron; white thorn root and costus root, which are Cambay remedies, and all of this is very valuable in Java. Ships also go fromMalacca to the Moluccas, which I shall talk about later on. There they load up with cloves and the merchandise they take are Cambay cloths, all kinds of silk and cotton, Pulicat and Bengal cloths, quicksilver; wrought copper; Chinese bells; bowls and coins; pepper; porcelains; garlic; onions and many other goods from Cambay. And so they sail from Malacca to all the islands spread across this sea and to Timor, fromwhere they bring all the white sandalwood, which is very popular and highly valued by the Mouros; they take iron; axes; knives; cleavers; swords; Pulicat cloths; copper; quicksilver; vermillion; tin; lead, and many Cambay curtains; in exchange, they load up on sandalwood and in addition, honey; wax, and slaves. These ships also sail from Malacca to some islands called the Banda islands to load up on nutmeg and mace and where they take goods from Cambay to sell. They go to the island of Sumatra, from where they bring back lots of pepper; silk; raw silk thread; lots of benzoin resin and gold; they go to other islands from where they acquire a lot of camphor and agarwood. They go to Tenasserim; Pegu; Bengal; Pulicat; Coromandel;
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