Part II. 



THE 



FIGURES 



Of the PIECES of 



Gold, Silver, and Copper: 



AND OF 



The Sorts of Shells and Almonds that pafs 

 . for MONEY over all ASIA. 



The Money of Arabia. 



Larin, Figure I. 



Half-Larin 3 Fig. 2. 



HIS Money (?£***) is cali'd 

 Larin, and fignihes 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 Larins want in 

 weight Eight Sous of our 

 Crown. This is that which the 

 Ermrs , or Princes of Arabia 

 take for the Coining of their 

 Money j and the profit which 

 they make by the Merchants 

 that travel through theDefart, 

 either into Per [to. or the Indies. 



For then the Emirs come to the 

 Caravans, to take their Tolls, and to change their Crowns, Reals, or 

 Ducats of Gold, for thefe Larins. For they muft of neceflity pafs 

 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 5 but making as if they had 

 Jot time to caft up the accompt, they go a hunting, and leave the Merchants 

 fifteen or twenty days without faying any thiop more to them i while they 

 in the mean time fpend their provifions , not^nowing where to get more. 

 If the Caravan %oc$ 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 thete Princes kept us one and twenty days ; after which we thought our 

 felves 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 Spam, 

 the Merchants would never be much troubled. But. when they come to Perjta r 

 0/ the Indies, they muft carry their Mpney to the Mint, as I have faid in 

 another place , and loofe above eight Sous in a Crown , which amounts to 

 14 per Cent. As for what remains, the Larins are one of the ancient Coins 



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The Author not ha- 

 ving given an account of 

 the weight or finenefs 

 of the Coins he treats 

 of, but having only ex- 

 prels'd their value m 

 French Livres, it is 

 thought fit for the bet- 

 ter reduction thereof 

 into Engbjh Coimto ad- 

 vertife , That Three 

 French Livres make a 

 French Crown , which 

 pa (Tes in Exchange 

 From J4 pence to ^8 

 pence halfpenny 5 lb 

 that a Fro-cb Livre may 

 be in value as the Ex- 

 change goes, from 18 

 pence to 1 9 pence half- 

 penny. And twenty Sous 

 make a Livre. 



