Storia do Mogor 213.6

213.6

It ought to be remembered that the whole of the merchandise which is exported from the Mogul kingdom comes [52] from four kinds of plants — that is to say, the shrub that produces the cotton from which a large quantity of cloth, coarse and fine, is made. These cotton goods are exported to Europe, Persia, Arabia, and other quarters of the world. The second is the plant which produces indigo. The third is the one from which comes opium, of which a large amount is used on the Java coast. The fourth is the mulberry-tree, on which their silk-worms are fed, and, as it may be said, that commodity (silk) is grown on those trees. For the export of all this merchandise, European and other traders bring much silver to India. They also carry away great quantities of diamonds and saltpetre. The traders also bring much gold from China, from Achin, situated on the coast of E. Su (?) — I mean upon the island of Sumatra. Also from the coast of Persia there came Venetians (a coin) and sequins (coins), in addition to some fruits and liqueurs, almost all of which are for the use of Europeans living in India.