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Extract from the daily register of the following provisions bought and paid for in cash from the ship Den Bloesem coming out of New England under Capt. John Alen.

1660	4 March on the island of Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, received in the magazine by the commissary Laurens van Ruyven:
	9800	lb. fine white English cakes, one piece of eight per hundred weight	P 686:-,-[1]
	207½	skipples of white peas at 1 piece of eight per skipple	P 207:4,-
	2000	lb. of dried cod at 3 st. per lb.	P 125:-,-
	2	rolls of tobacco, 83 lb at 6 st. per lb.	P 125:-,-
	1	barrel of salted meat at 40 gl.	P 16:5,-
	1	barrel of bacon at 60 gl.	P 25:-,-
			P 1070:4,-

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Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., Curaçao Papers, 1640-1665 (New Netherland Research Center and the New Netherland Institute: 2011).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.