6-7.
[3] The symbol U was used, in accounts, to designate thousands, in the same way as the comma, or the comma with ciphers, is now used in numerical notation.
[4] The deposition of Juan Arze de Sadornel, which is very similar to this, contains some further items of information, summarized thus: "Prices are especially high when ships from Nueva Espana fail to arrive, or when a great number of people come on them.

At such times, a jar of olives may cost eleven or twelve pesos, and a quire of Castilian paper four or five pesos.

The so-called linen cloth is really of cotton, and is very warm and quite worthless.

The Sangleys do not bring flour made of pure wheat.

Three or four years ago, the pork, fowls, rice, and other produce of the country were sold very cheaply; now there is great scarcity (and has been for two years) of rice in the market, and its price has advanced from four tomins for six fanegas to a toston for one fanega.