With the Haften, Schonauwen and the homeward bound ships Barbestein, Ketel, Wickenburg en Meerlust was 600.000 lb Japanese copper and 700 last rice send towards Galle and Tuticorin. From two Portuguese ships was 215.938 lb spiaulter and 6000 lb radix china bought against 7½ rijksdaalders a pikol. Portuguese 2- and 3 mast ships were harmless and often allowed. The cargo of rice they bring along from Bengal is sold at Ceylon, if they don’t succeed in arriving at the Malediven. At Ceylon they buy copper, areka nuts and elephants. These ships are indispensable due the continuous lacking of enough rice for the population. It was feared that this lacking would caused hunger and poverty and so influence the whole trade. With the Adriana was a cargo of 100.000 lb pepper send towards Coromandel. The yacht Colombo transported 2066 kati cauris.
Source
J. van Goor, Generale Missiven van Gouverneurs-Generaal en Raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie. Deel IX: 1729-1737. The Hague, 1988, Generale Missive from Abraham Patras, p. 652-671.
