'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.' [‎5] (314/1024)

Part 11. An account of the Money of As t Ai
the more he gains * for if he makes any payment,according to the quantity of the
fum, he -puts the Pagods by fifty or a hundred together in little bags, and feals
them up with his Seal, and writes upon the bag the number of the Pagods with
in j and fo delivers them to him to whom he makes the payment. When the
Party makes ufe of them, he never opens the bag, but gives them as they are to
him to whom they are due ^ who goes to the fame Banker that feaFd the bags.
The Banker feeing his Seal whole, makes anfwer. That the Pieces are good and
in that manner they fliall pafs all the Year without opening the bags. But vvhen
ever they change the hand, they fend for the fame Banker, who always will have
fo much per Cent. for his Vifit. But, as I have faid, the Merchant leaves them in
his hand to get Interefl } who then pays Eight per Cent, for a Year, and fome-
times Twelve. Thus the Bankers have always the greateil part of the Mo
ney in the Kingdom in their hands, of which they make large profit. ’Tis the
Cuflom in that Country, every Month to pay the Soldiery} but for the molt part
the Soldiers, Captains, and other Officers will not flay till the Month be up but
come to the Bankers, who difcount after the rate of Eighteen or Twenty per
Cent, by the Year, befides that they pay them in thefe Pagods, againfl which
others would often objeft. If there be any large Diamond to be fold in any
Country, thefe Bankers have intelligence of it prefently} or if there be.aiiy fair
Ruby, ’tis^ot long before they have it in pawn ^ for every Year when the Mer
chants return from Pegtt^ and have any Rubies, moft commonly they are in
debt} and in regard it is the Cuflom to pay within fifteen dayes after the Mer
chant comes afhoar, he pawns his belt goods he has for payment, as well of the
freight of the Ship, as of what he may have taken up at Pegu. After that he
fells the worft of his goods to pay the Banker, who lent him the Money upon his
arrival. Thofe that work in the Diamond Mines, or the Merchants that hire
the Mine, when they have any fair Stones, they fell them to thefe Bankers, be-
caufe there is ready Money j or elfe they pawn them to the Bankers, till they
can find a Chapman to buy them.
Pig- i. The old Pagod.
2. The King of Co/coWTs Paged.
Pig. 3, and 4. The King of n/aponrs Pagod.
Pig. 5, and 6 . The Raja King of Camatica's Pagod.
Pig' 7 ? an( i 8. The Raja King of Fdouche's Pagod.
Pig. % 10, 11, and 12. are the Half-Pagods of thofe Kings and Raja King 's.
l h l 4 -> 1 5 ^ a «d 17. are little Pieces of Gold call’d Fanos, which are of
afferent value. There are fome whereof fix go to a Crown; others from ten to
hiteen} and fome are very bafe mettal. This is the Money that pafles all along
tne Coafl of Coromandel-, from Cape Comorin as far as Bengala. And they have
very httle other than that, befides the Pecha of Copper, and the Shells, which
pafs for fmall Money. . - ?
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the Money which the Englifli and Hollanders Coin in the Indies.
fc’ ant l J"j* S r^ e Mone y which the English coin in their Fort St. Georg
iLk VTr upon the Coaft of Coromandel. They call them P;
the 4 m thofe , oftl V K V n S s alld ^>’sof the Country ere --lU They are c
the k, th . e ,f ame g 0 . odn efs> and pafs for the : .. Value. Formerl
torde/umn TiT AA ^ SllV u r or Co PP er Money ; tor in fome parts ths
at T 2 ^ 1 “™' WherC they llave Paftories, as at Surat, Manhattan, c
ver- GniH iT y V more profitable to carry Gold from England than Sii
carrW CnM S .h in ^ room ’. and not bein g fo troublefome; befides, that b
Kings fmrof u-m r hh ea ‘ lly .f fca P e the*paying thofe Cuftoms, which th
5 pole u P on Gold ai l d Silver. But fmee ’the prefent King of Eng