Remonstrantie 3.4

3.4

Jagannath (600 kos from here), is where the East country (Poorop) ends and Bengal begins. It produces fine muslin (cassa and malmal), also hamaium, and tsehen, a superior wide cloth suitable for bed-sheets, but little of it is brought [here] owing to the high quality and cost. Further on, Dacca, Tsettagham, Bipil bander orixa, are all under this King's rule; in these places the Portuguese used to have an extensive trade, for they have here cities inhabited by their own people, but they are now subject to the Moguls, because this King has built forts everywhere to keep them in subjection. Many of their trading vessels used to come annually from Malacca and Macao; they brought spices, [woollen] cloth, lead, tin, quicksilver, and vermilion; and for the return voyage purchased many kinds of white cotton cloth as well as Bengal muslin, or loaded their frigates with butter, rice, gingelly seed, and such goods, making large profits. The local muslins are not woven smoothly, because the yarn is rough and harsh, and consequently the cloth is not soft or pleasant to handle.