Account of the Drugs and Spices in Calicut and All the Malabar Country

Lac of Martaban, very good, is worth the farazola, which is twenty-two pounds and

six ounces and a half of Portugal, of xvj ounces to the pound

xviij fanoes 18

Lac of the country, the farazola xij fs. 12

Coarse camphor in loaves of lxx to eighty fanoes the farazola lxxx fs. 80

Very good borax in large pieces at xxx, xl, or l fs. the farazola xl fs. 40

Camphor for anointing the idols at the rate of one fanam and a half the mitical, six

and a half of which make an ounce i fm. & a half 1½

Camphor for eating and for the eyes at iij fs. the mitical iij fs. 3

Eagle wood at cccl and cccc fs. the farazola ccclxxv fs. 375

Genuine aloe-wood, and very choice black and heavy is worth i fs. the farazola iu fs. 1,000

Musk in powder of good quality, the ounce xxxvi fs. xxxvi fs. 36

Benjuy each farazola lx and the very good lxx fs. lxv fs. 65

Fresh tamarinds at iij fs. the farazola iij fs. 3

Sweet flag the farazola xij fs. 12

Indigo, coarse and heavy, which contains sand, seventeen to twenty-two fs. the

farazola xx fs. 20

Encienzo the best when in grain is worth v fs. 5

Encienzo in paste and inferior is worth iij fs. 3

Very good amber is worth ij to iij fs. the mitical iij fs. 3

Mirobolans in sugar conserve are worth

from sixteen to xxv fs. the farazola xx fs. 20

Coloured sandal v and vi fs. the farazola vi fs. 6

Spikenard, fresh and good, from xxx to xl fs. the fa. xl fs. 40

White sandal, and of a lemon colour xl to lx fs. the farazola, it grows in an

island called Timor 1 fs. 50

Nutmeg x and xi fs. the farazola, it comes from Bandam, where the bahar is

worth viij or x fs. xi fs. 11

Mace from xxv to xxx fs. the farazola, this also comes from Bandan, where it

is worth 1 fs. the bahar. xxx fs. 30

Good herb lonbreguera at xv fs. the farazola xv fs. 15

Turbiti, at xiij fs. the farazola xiij fanoes 13

Zerumba is worth the farazola ij fs. 2

Zedoary is worth the farazola i fm. 1

Serapine gum is worth the farazola xx fs. 20

Socotra aloes are worth the farazola viij fs. 8

Cardamums in grain at xx fs. xx fs. 20

Rhubarb, there is much of it in the Malabar country, and what comes from China by

Malaca is worth cccc to d fs. the farazola ccccl 450

Mirobolans, ynblicos, are worth, the farazola ij fs. 2

Mirobolans, belericos, are worth, the farazola i fm. 1

Mirobolans of a citron colour and quebulos which are one kind ij fs. 2

Mirobolans yndos, which are from the same trees as the citron coloured, are worth iij fs. 3

Tutty, the farazola xxx fs. 30

China cubela, which grows in Java, is given there at a low price without

weight or measure, by eye.

Opium is worth the farazola in Calicut, and comes from Aden, where they

make it, it is worth from cclxxx to cccxx fs. ccc fs. 300

Another opium which is prepared in Cambay is worth from cc to ccl fs.

the farazola ccxxv fs. 225