Let this suffice for Japanese news; and I now proceed to inform you of our success in selling our goods. The emperor took all our ordnance, with most of our lead, and ten barrels of gunpowder, with two or three pieces of broad-cloth. Most of our other broad-cloths are sold, namely, black, hair-colour, and cinnamon-colour, at fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, and twelve tayes the _tattamy_; but they will not even look at Venice-reds and flame-colours, neither are _stammels_ in such request as formerly, but they enquire much for whites and yellows. As the Dutch sold most of their broad-cloths at low prices, we were forced to do so likewise. In regard to our Cambaya goods, they will not look at our _red Zelas_, blue _byrams_, or _dutties_, being the principal part of what is now left us; and only some white bastas sell at fourteen or fifteen masses each. _Cassedys nill, alleias_, broad _pintados_, with spotted, striped, and checquered stuffs, are most in request, and sell at good profit. We have also sold nearly half of our Bantam pepper for sixty-five _masse_ the _pekull_, and all the rest had been gone before now, had it not been for the war. I am in great hope of procuring trade into China, through the means of Andrea, the China captain, and his two brothers, who have undertaken the matter, and have no doubt of being able to bring it to bear, for three ships to come yearly to a place near _Lanquin_,[56] to which we may go from hence in three or four days with a fair wind. Of this I have written at large to the worshipful company, and also to the lord-treasurer. [Footnote 56: As Nangasaki is uniformly named _Langasaque_ in this first English voyage to Japan, I am apt to suspect the _Lanquin_ of the text may have been Nan-kin.--E.]