He says that each year three to six ships of the Dutch East India Company would run out with the monsoon and arrive in Guangzhou around August. There they would first load porcelain as ballast. A layer of 200 wooden cases in the bottom of the hold would contain 200,000 to 250,000 pieces of porcelain, above which tea, silk and other cargo would be stowed.
他表示，荷屬東印度公司每年有二至六艘商船乘季風約在八月抵穗，先裝瓷器壓艙，一個底層可放兩百個木箱，共約廿到廿五萬件瓷器，之後再裝茶葉絲綢等其他船貨，十二月回航。