THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. $3 



excrcifed by the Naybe, who takes, under the name of cuf- 

 trnns, whatever part he pleafes of the goods and provitions 

 brought to that iiland ; by which means the profit of the 

 feller is fo final!, as not to be worth the pains and ride of 

 bringing it : 20 rotol of butter coil a pataka and a half, 3* 

 harf ; or, in one term, 45^ harf. A goat is half of a pataka ; 

 a (heep, two-thirds of a pataka ; the ardep of wheat, 4 pa- 

 takas ; Dora, from Arabia, 2 patakas. 



-Venit> vilijftma rerum, 



Hie aqua. Horat. lib. 1. Sat. 6. v. 88. • 



Water is fold for three diwanis, or paras, the 7 gallons. 

 The fame fort of money is in ufe at Mafuah, and the op- 

 pofite coaft of Arabia ; and it is indeed owing to the com- 

 mercial intercourfe with . that coaft that any coin is cur- 

 rent in this or the weftern fide. It is all valued by the 

 Venetian fequin. But glais beads, called Contaria, of all 

 kinds and colours, perfect and broken, pafs for i'mali money, 

 and are called, in their language, Borjooke. 



Table of the relative valve of Monet. 



Venetian Sequin, — 2; Pataka. 



Pataka or Imperial Dollar, 28 Harf. 



1 Harf, — — 4 Diwani. 



ioKibeer, — — 1 Diwani, 



1 Kibeer, — — 3 Borjooke, or Grams. 



The Harf Is likewife called Dahab, a word very equivo- 

 cal, as it means in Arabic, gold, and frequently a fequin. 

 The .Harf is 120 grains of beads. 



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