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Table 41: Homeward cargoes: analysis of imports and sales in selected triennial periods
Spices
Pepper
Sugar
Tea, coffee
Drugs, perfumery,
Dye stuffs
Saltpetre
Metals
Textiles
Sundries
510,400 17.6
1,638,500 56.4
284,200 9.8
2,900 0.1
466,900 16.1
2,902,900
1,127,700
3,168,900
403,200
535,500
132,200
31,500
894,600
12,600
6,274,800
17.8 26.4
50.3 32.9
6.4 8.8
8.5 7.3
2.1 4.3
0.5 0.7
14.2 17.5
0.2 2.1
1,306,800
3,294,000
453,600
626,400
550,800
615,600
3,942,000
. 10,800
10,789,200
12.1 28.4
30.5 29.0
4.2 2.0
5.8 5.9
5.1 7.6
5.7 3.0
36.5 23.8
0.1 0.3
1,755,000
1,680,000
45,000
630,000
1,245,000
585,000
795,000
8,205,000
60,000
15,000,000
11.7 24.8
11.2 13.3
0.3 0.2
4.2 4.1
8.3 6.6
3.9 4.0
5.3 2.9
54.7 43.4
0.4 0.7
1,182,600
1,561,000
710,000
6,202,100
532,000
504,400
202,100
7,918,600
433,900
19,246,700
6.1 23.6
8.1 11.4
3.7 3.0
32.2 24.9
2.8 2.7
2.6 3.6
1.1 0.6
41.1 28.3
2.3 1.9
642,900 3.1 24.4
1,868,100 9.0 11.0
133,000 0.6 0.6
5,652,300 27.2 22.9
380,700 1.8 2.3
909,700 4.4 2.8
569,000 2.7 1.4
10,283,200 49.5 32.7
357,600 1.7 1.9
20,796,500
a = invoice value in guilders.
b= %oftotalinvoicevalue.
c = % in the sales at Kamer Amsterdam.
* = only 2 out of 9 ships from Ceylon included.
1619-21 1648-50
1668-70*
1698-1700
1738-40 1778-80
ababcabcabcabcabc
Sources: Glamann, Dutch-Asiatic trade, 12-14 and 269-278. The samples of 1738-40 and 1778-80 are based upon Overgekomen Brieven en Papieren:for
the homeward fleets from Batavia (1738-40, 1778-80) VOC 2392, 2394, 2397, 2419, 2422, 2425, 2450, 2452, 2454, 3449, 3477, 3504, 3532, 3535; from Ceylon
2403, 2431, 2460, 3456, 3457, 3484, 3485, 3515, 3516, 3543, 3544, 3571; from China 2410, 2438, 4415, 4418, 4419; for the period 1738-40 4 out of 9 cargo
specifications of the ships from Bengal have not been preserved. In view of the fairly constant cargoes an average has been calculated for these four, VOC
Archives Bookkeeper-general at Batavia 10770 and 10771.