The Ely ginger grows in the mountain Dely as far as Cananor, and is smaller and not so white, nor so good. The bahar in Cananor is worth forty fanoes, and six fanoes duty is paid per bahar, and it is sold without being packed.[375]
GREEN GINGER FOR CONSERVES.
In Bengal there is also much ginger of the country and there they make with it a large quantity of preserves with sugar, very well made; and they bring it in Martaban jars to sell at Malabar, and the farazola, which is twenty-two pounds, is worth xiiij and xv or xv; fanoes. And that which is now preserved with sugar in Calicut is worth xxv fanoes the farazola on account of sugar being dear there.
Green ginger for making preserves is worth three quarters of a fanam the farazola[376] in Calicut.
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[377] 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[378] 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[379] 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[380] at xv fs. the farazola | xv fs. | 15 |
| Turbiti,[381] 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[382] 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,[383] the farazola | xxx fs. | 30 |
| China cubela,[384] 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 |