It is interesting to compare these prices with those given by Duarte Barbosa for Calecut. Assuming the fanão to be worth 6.5_d._ they were as follows per pound:—Cinnamon, 4.3_d._; cloves, 7.2_d._ to 8.3_d._; pepper, 2.9_d._ to 3.3_d._; ginger, 0.5_d._ to 0.9_d._; nutmeg, 3.0_d._ to 3.36_d._; lac, 3.6_d._ to 5.2_d._; rhubarb, 9_s._ 9_d._ to 11_s._; musk, £15 11_s._; aloe-wood, 24_s._ 7_d._; frankincense, 0.9_d._ to 1.5_d._ A purchaser of one pound of each of these commodities would have paid at Calecut £17 13_s._ 6_d._, and would have received at Alexandria £57 12_s._ 8_d._, an increase of 210 per cent. (See Lord Stanley of Alderley’s version of _Duarte Barbosa_, Hakluyt Society, 1866, p. 219.) Present Retail Prices in London are as follows (per pound): cinnamon, 1_s._ 8_d._; cloves, 1_s._ 6_d._; pepper, 7½_d._ to 10½_d._; ginger, 10_d._ to 1_s._ 4_d._; nutmeg, 2_s._ 6_d._ to 3_s._; lac, 8_d._; rhubarb, 8_s._ to 12_s._; musk, £117. [263] The words placed within brackets have been kindly furnished me by the Rt. Rev. J. M. Speechly, D.D., who was Bishop of Travancore, 1879-89. In a letter to me he remarks that, “at the sea-port towns generally the worst Malayālam is spoken. Many Malayālam words are the same in Tamil, and in this list there are some which a Tamil scholar would be able to point out. Also, it is not unlikely that there are some Arabic words Malayālamised in the list. The anonymous author’s list is a very interesting one, and his journal, I have no doubt, will be so also. The ‘ne’ which ends so many words may stand for ‘nī’, ‘thou’. Sometimes it is only an expressive ending”. [264] She died in childbed on August 24, 1498; and Dom Manuel, having been granted a dispensation from the Pope, married her sister, Doña Maria, on August 24, 1500, the second anniversary of his first wife’s death. [265] _Collecção de S. Vicente_, t. III, fol. 513; XIV, fol. 1. [266] _Collecção de S. Vicente_, t. XIV, fol. 1. [267] Gaspar da Gama certainly came in the _S. Gabriel_ (see Sernigi’s letter, Appendix B). [268] The immediate business of Pedro Correa was to get Pope Alexander VI to grant permission to the Commanders and Knights of the Orders of Christ and Aviz to marry. In this he succeeded (Goes, _Chronica do D. Manuel_, I, c. 15). [269] “e proveito nosso.” This, in _Alguns Documentos_, is rendered “e principalemente nosso”. It is just possible that the King meant to say that the “service of God” was his principal object, as it had been that of his predecessors. [270] “By these same discoverers” (_Alguns Documentos_). [271] This reference to “boughs and leaves” reminds us of what the author of the _Journal_ says about gathering the branches and leaves of supposed cinnamon trees, p. 81. [272] _Alguns Documentos_ adds: “nor such as suited”, that is, suited the requirements of the Indian market. [273] This paragraph only appears in _Alguns Documentos_.