ABSTRACT
FURTHER on after leaving this island of Borneo over against the Kingdom of Anseam and China there is a very great island of Heathen which they call Champa 3 which has a Heathen King and its own tongue. Therein are many elephants which they take and convey them to many lands. There also grows abundance of aloes-wood 1 which the Indians call "Aguila Calambua" [Aquilam and Calambuco; and the Calambuco is the finest. This is worth three hundred maravedis the pound in Calicut. Ramusio]. [Eagle and Calambuco; it must be said that the very fine Calambuco and the other eagle-wood is worth at Calicut a thousand maravedis the pound. Spanish version.] "The fine quality is much valued among the Indians and Moors and at Calicut it fetches thirty or forty pardaos the arratel. They require it to mingle with sanders-wood, musk and rose-water to anoint themselves withal."
