'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎22] (341/1024)

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Rea^ like our white Crown, is but juft eleven Deneers. The
at ten Deneers and twenty-one Grains. For the Spamjh Real that w
feventy-three Vais, you have four Mamoudi’s and a half, and one Mamou^ •
worth twenty Pecha’s ^ but they muft be very good, and as I have faid alrerl 18
feventv-three Vais in weight: eightv-one Vais making: an Onnr^
feventy-three Vais in weight: eighty-one Vais making an Ounce, oneVal r
ing to feven Deneers. 0rn ~
For the Rixdollars of Germany^ in regard they are heavier than the Reals th
will give you for an hundred, as high as an hundred and fixteen Roupies \Vh '
you are to take notice, that in giving for an hundred Reals, or an hundred K*
dollars, two hundred and fifteen, or two hundred and fixteen Roupies, ft f e lZ l
that every Roupy ought to be worth lefs than thirty Sous. But if the Merch^t
count the Portage of the Silver, and the Cuftoms, he will find that ever? Rn ^
will Hand him in more. But that the Merchant may make his profit, hemufhaS
notice, that all the Reals of Mexico, and thofe of Sm/, are in weight one and
twenty Deneers and eight Grains, that is, five hundred and twelve Grains • and
for thofe that are no better then our white Crown, they are to be in weighton
and twenty Deneers and three Grains, which makes five hundred and nine Grains 6
All Dollars and Reals are weigh’d, a hundred at a time, and when they are want
ing in weight, they add little ftones, as when they weigh Gold, according to what
I fhall tell you by and by;
We come now to the Money of the Country. Thz Indian Money is the Silver
Roupy, the Half, Quarter, Eighteenth and Sixteenth part. The weight of the
Roupy is nine Deneers and one Grainy the value of the Silver is eleven Deneers
and fourteen Grains. They have alfo another fort of Silver Money, which they
call Mamoudi’s, but this goes no-where but in Surat^ and in the Province^
Guz.erat.
The Indians have alfo a fort of fmall Copper Money, which is call’d Pecha-
which is worth about two of our Liards, a Liard being the fourth part of a
Sous. There is alfo the Half Pecha, Two Pecha’s, and Four Pecha’s. Accor
ding to the cuftom of the Province where you Travel, you have for a Roupy
of Silver more or lefs of thefe Pecha’s. In my laft Travels, a Roupy went
at Surat for nine and forty Pecha’s. But the time was, when it was worth
fifty, and another time, when it went but for fix and forty. At Agra and G(.
hanabat ^, the Roupy was valued at fifty-five and fifty-fix Pechas. And’the
reafon is, becaufe the nearer you go to the Copper Mines, the more Pecha’s
you have for a Roupy. As for the Mamoudi, it is always valued at forty
Pecha’s.
There are two other forts of fmall Money in the Dominions of the Great Mo-
guU, which are little bitter Almonds and Shells.. Thefe little bitter Almonds,
which are brought out of Per fa are only made ufe of in the Province of 6 me-
ratt j as I have obferved in the firft part of my Relations. They grow in dry
and barren places artiongft the Rocks, and the Tree, that bears them, is almofl
like our Ballard Spanijh-Broom. They call thefe Almonds Baden: -Nor is there any
Coloquintida fo bitter. They give for a Pecha fometimes thirty five, and foine-
times forty.
Their other fmall Money are the little Shells which they call Cori ^ the iides
whereof turn circularly inward: Nor are they to be found in any part of the
World, but in the Maldives Iflands. They are the greateft part of the Revenue
of the King of that Ifland. For they are tranfported into all the Territories of
the Great Mogull^ into the Kingdoms of Vifapmr and Golconda } and into the
Iflands of America to ferve inftead of Money. Near the Sea they give 80 fora
Pecha. ^ But the^ further you go from the Sea, the lefs you have} fo that at Agra,
they will not give you above 50 or $5 for a Pecha. As to wbat remains accord
ing to the Accompt of the Indians^
100000 Roupies make a Lekke.
100000 Lekks make a Kraur.
100000 Kraur’s makea Padan.
1 00000 Padan’s make a Ril.
in the Indies^ the Village muft be very fmall, where there does not reflde a Ban-
^er, whom they call Cberaff, whofe bufinefs it is to remit Money and Bills of
Exchange.