'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.' [‎8] (319/1024)

An account of the Money of As i a. Part H,
they make life of certain Shells that are gather’d upon the Sea-lhore 2 "whicTtip :
bring from Maldives, ^
The Gold and Silver Money of the Kings of Afem, Tipoura
Arakan and Pegu.
f A LL the Silver Money coin’d by the Kings whom I have nam*d, is in good.
Jl\. nefs equal to our Crown, rating it at three Livres ten Sous the Ounce a"
we rate our Crowns here.
Fig. i, and 2. is the Silver Money of the King of Afem 5 it weighs three Drams
and tour Grains, and comes to 23 Sous of our Money.
Fig- 4* is the Silver Money made by the King of Tipoitra Chatemam. In the
language of the Country, he is call’d DkuAra-gari, which is flampt upon one fide
of the Money, and upon the other Chatermam Roy de Tipoura. His Country be
gins about twelve days journey from Daca toward the North-Weft. This Mo'
uey weighs two Drams and a half, and twenty-two Grains 5 and is in value twen
ty-two Sous.
, Fig. 3, 6 . is the King of Arakin’s Money. It Weighs two Drams and a half
and 15 Grains, which makes 21 Sous of our Money. This King coins no Gold •
but he trafficks in Gold uncoin’d. The Mettal is very bafe, and not Worth
above 14 Carats, a Carat being the third part of an Ounce. ’ The King how
ever holds it at a high rate, to keep it from being carry’d out of his Coun
try. In all Bengala this King is known by no other Name but the King of
Mogtte.
Fig- 7> 2nd 8. is the King of Peg^s Silver Money, and weighs two Drams and a
half, and twelve Grains, which may come to about 20 Sous, and fix Deneers of our
Fig-9, and 10. are the King of Pegu's Fano’s, Or little pieces of Gold, and weigh
not above 7 Grains to boot. Fifteen of thefe little pieces pafs for the value of a
Real, or one of our Crowns, the Gold being coarfe.
a r e the Kings of Afem's FanoV, they weigh alfo 7 Grainsj but
they are a much bafer Mettal than thofe of Pegu y for twenty-two of them amount
but to the value of our Crown.
Tumps or Pieces of Gold and Silver which go for Money in the
Kingdom of China, and the Kingdom of Tunquin,
Y O U are firft to take notice, that in all the Kingdom of China y and the King
dom oi Tunquin^ there is no Money coin’d, either Gold or Silver y that their
hnall Money is Copper, and that they make ufe in payments only of Lumps or
rep^f 0 ted ^ ^ which have every one their particular weight, as is here
The Pieces of Gold mark’d Fig. 1, and 2. are by the Hollanders call’d Gcltfchat,
that is to fay, a Boat of Gold, becaufe they are in the form of a Boat. Other
Nations call them Loaves of Gold ^ and there are but two different fixes of them.
1 r a goodnefs, that an Ounce in France would not be worth
tels than 42 Franks. The great Pieces come to twelve hundred Gelders oiHolland
uney, and thirteen hundred and fifty Livres of our Money. The other
Fiece, which weighs but half as much, is in value according to its proper-
As for their Pieces of Silver, they are of feveral fizes, and different weight.
T weighs fix Drams and a half, and 23 Grains <) and the Silver being