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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55, 1620-1621

Note 5 — Appendix: Buying and Selling Prices of Oriental Products

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The said ship will also carry from one thousand seven hundred to two thousand pieces of a certain silk worked with birds, and other pictures done in silk and unwoven silver.5 Each piece is worth up to eleven maçes, and the fine ones up to fourteen. They have seven, eight, and nine gaxos, and they are sold in Xapon for about two and one-half or three taes apiece.

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