The information it contains respecting the principal commodities then brought from India to Europe, and their prices, is curious: Yet there is some reason to suspect that the author, or editor rather, has sometimes interchanged the bahar and the faracula, or its twentieth part, in the weights of the commodities.

As a compensation for the slaughter of our men, he is to pay 4000 bahars of pepper, equal to 12, 000 quintals.

On account of the war, no pepper was brought from the country to sell at the factory in Cochin, neither dared the merchants to go out in search of that commodity, insomuch that the factory had only been able to procure 300 bahars, and the factor requested the generals to go in quest of some which was to be procured at a place about nine leagues from Cochin.