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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522

Note 424 — PRIMO VIAGGIO INTORNO AL MONDO (continued 3)

James Alexander Robertson translation

MS. 5,650 mentions only the six porcelain dishes, the wax, and the pitch, for the last eighty, instead of forty, cathils, of bronze being traded. The bahar of the Italian MS. becomes “barrel” or “cask” in the French. The anime (pitch) may have been one of the numerous resins yielded by various trees in the Philippines (see Report of Philippine Commission, 1900, iii, 282, 283).

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