_ 225 _ exchange for cloves, nutmeg and ginger, the last of which was valued at seventy-five, and the nutmeg and cloves at eighty. The account is made up of what the drugs were worth in cash: that is, the cloves at seventy-four. The horses were bought for 6,900 dinars in cash; they are very good ones, and at these prices there were many purchasers. I also took together with them this compensation, which they would not give me without it, a very find carpet shot through with gold thread, for seventy-five cruzados, which is equivalent to 1,682 and a half dinars, and in addition two lengths of camel-hair cloth, one fine and lemon-coloured, the other (?) green, and a length of a cloth called quiçai, made from fine linen, all this for four hundred and fifty dinars, also eight guazes of green velvet and eight guazes of cloth in two lots, one red, the other blue, in the guazes of this country for 1,080 dinars. With this they gave me four hundred cruzados in cash with which I was able to plug a couple of the holes I still have [in my personal finances]. All the articles I mention here Fernão Rodrigues is taking with him, he is sailing in nacoda Bufaro’s’ terrada. As for horses, you should not count on their coming to you from here with this monsoon, for there are none in
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