'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.' [‎1] (306/1024)

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Part II«
the
p I G U R E S
Of the PIECES of
Gold, Silver and Copper:
AND OF
The Sorts of Shells' aud Almonds that pais .for
MONEY over all ^4 S f A.
The Money of Arabia.
Larin^ Figure i.
Half-Larin i Fig. 2.
The Author not ha
ving given an account of
the weight or finenefs
of the Coins he treats
of, but having only ex*
prefs’d their value in
French Livres , it is
vertife, That Three
French iJvres make a
French Crown , which
pafies in Exchange
from $4. penee to $8
pence half-penny ; fo
HIS Mdney ( Fig. 1.,) is call’d
Larin , and lignifies the fame
with our Crowns. The Five
Pieces are as much in value
as one of our Crowns } and
the Ten Half-Larins as much. .
Only the Five Latin, want in
weight Eight Sous of our intoCoin, toad-
Crown, This is that which the
Emirs, or Princes of Arabia
take for the Coining of their
Money } and the profit which
they make by the Merchants
that travel through the Defart, 'jkat a French Livremay
either into Perfia or the Mies.
For then the Emirs come to the pence to 19 pence half-
Caravans^ to take their Tolls, and to change their Crowns, Reals, or penny. And twenty Sous
Ducats of Gold, for thefe Larins. For they/muft of necelfity pafs makeaLivre.
that way. And they muft ufe very fmooth words to boot ^ for there is nothing
to be got by rough Languages. If they fee the Merchants will not change their
Money, then will they refufe to take their Toll ^ but making as if they had
not time to call up the accompt, they go a hunting, and leave the Merchants
fifteen or twenty Days without faying any thing more to them* while they
mthe mean time fpend their Provifions, not knowing where to get more,
if the C aravan goes on without paying their Tolls, thefe Arabian Princes will
either cut them in Pieces, or take away their Camels, or rob them of all
they have, as they have feveral times done. In one Journey that I made,
one of thefe Princes kept us one-and twenty days } after which we thought our
ielves happy to be quit of him, when we had given him whatever he demanded,
if thefe five Larins did but weigh as much as the Crown, or Real of Spain,
vhe Merchants would never be much troubled. But when they come to Ferfia,
cr fhe dn-dies, they mull carry their Money to the Mint, as I have faid in
another place, and lofe above eight Sous in a Crown, which amounts to
*4 tfr Cent. As for what remains, the Larins are one of the ancient Coins
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