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1563-81. 

 small barks (innumerable) come in and out, for at those 

 times of the Moone the tides and waters are higher then 

 at other times they be. These barkes be laden with all 

 sorts of spices, with silke of China, with Sandols, with 

 Elephants teeth. Velvets of Vercini, great quantity of 

 Pannina, which commeth from Mecca, Chickinos which 

 be pieces of golde woorth seven shillings a piece sterling, 

 with money, and with divers sorts of other marchandize. 

 Also these barks lade out, as it were, an infinite quantity 

 of cloth made of Bumbast of all sorts, as white stamped 

 and painted, with great quantity of Indico, dried ginger 

 & conserved, Myrabolans drie and condite, Boraso in 

 paste, great store of sugar, great quantity of Cotton, 

 abundance of Opium, Assa Fetida, Puchio, with many 

 other sorts of drugges, turbants made in Dui, great stones 

 like to Corneolaes, Granats, Agats, Diaspry, Calcidonii, 

 Hematists, and some kinde of naturall Diamonds. There 

 is in the city of Cambaietta an order, but no man is 

 bound to keepe it, but they that will ; but all the [II. i. 217.] 

 Portugall marchants keepe it, the which is this. There 

 are in this city certain Brokers which are Gentiles and 

 of great authority, and have every one of them fifteene 

 or twenty servants, and the Marchants that use that 

 countrey have their Brokers, with which they be served : 

 and they that have not bene there are informed by their 

 friends of the order, and of what broker they shall be 

 served. Now every fifteene dayes (as abovesayd) that 

 the fleet of small shippes entreth into the port, the 

 Brokers come to the water side, and these Marchants 

 assoone as they are come on land, do give the cargason 

 of all their goods to that Broker that they will have to 

 do their businesse for them, with the marks of all the 

 fardles and packs they have : and the marchant having f^^nkants 

 taken on land all his furniture for his house, because it that travell to 

 is needfull that the Marchants that trade to the Indies the bidies must 

 cary provision of housholde with them, because that in (^^n fheir pro- 

 every place where they come they must have a new '^l^^^itf-^ ^^^' 

 house, the Broker that hath received his cargason, com- them. 



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