![]() ![]() Wharfage books were used to show what ships brought in and out of ports. Spices such as pepper, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger, were used literally to spice up the taste of food, and for the manufacture of medicines. Spices were in demand in Europe, but the supply was limited. The East India Company wanted spices from the East Indies. There was limited demand for wool and fancy goods in the East Indies, so much of their purchasing was done with silver instead. ![]() They offered such things as woollen cloth and ‘fancy’ goods like sword blades, mirrors, coral and ivory, and iron, lead and tin bars. ![]() They would come to markets such as this one offering British goods in exchange for these ones. Traders from the British trading company, the East India Company, traded in the region. There were melons and coconuts, sugar and honey, beans, bamboo, swords and knives, men’s clothes, women’s clothes, spices and drugs, meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, pepper, onions and garlic, rice, jewellery and birds. The wide variety of traders who brought their goods here included Arab, Turkish, Indian, Indonesian, Chinese and European traders. Traders from all over the East Indies met at the ‘great market’ in the large city of Bantam, on the island of Java (now part of Indonesia). Guinea grains, a type of pepper from West Africa ![]()
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