22 "Travels in India, Part H. 



Real, like our white Crown, is but juft eleven Deneers. The Mexican Real 

 goes at ten Deneers and twenty-one Grains. For xhtt Spanijh Real, that weighs 

 feventy-three Vals, you have four Mamoudi's and a half^ and one Mamoudi is 

 worth twenty Pecha's j but they muft be very good, and as I have laid al- 

 ready, feventy-three Vals in weight : eighty-one tals making an Ounce, one 

 Val coming to (even Deneers. 



For the Rixdollars of Germany % in regard they are heavier than the Reals 

 they will give you for an hundred, as high as an hundred and fixteen Roupies! 

 Where you are to take notice, that in giving for an hundred Reals, or an hun- 

 dred Rixdollars, two hundred and fifteen, or two hundred and fixteen Roupies, 

 it feems that every Roupy ought to be worth lefs than thirty Sous. But if 

 the Merchant count the portage of the Silver, and the Cuftoms, he wiU find 

 that every Roupy will ftand him in more. But that the Merchant may make 

 his profit, he muft take notice, that all the Reals of Mexico and thofe of Stvit t 

 are in weight one and twenty Deneers and eight Grains, that is, five hundred 

 and twelve Grains ; and for thofe that are no better than our white Crown, 

 they are to be in weight one and twenty Deneers and three Grains, which 

 makes five hundred and nine Grains. All Dollars and Reals are weigh'd, a 

 hundred at a time, and when they are wanting in weight, they add little ftones, 

 as when they weigh Gold, according to what I (hall tell you by and by. 



We come now to the Money of the Country. The Indian MoDey is the 

 Silver Roupy, the Half, Quarter, Eighteenth and Sixteenth part. The weight 

 of the Roupy is nine Deneers and one Grain; the value of the Silver is ele- 

 ven Deneers and fourteen Grains. They have alfo another fort of Silver Mo- 

 ney, which they call Mamoudi's, but this goes no-where but in Surat, and in 

 the Province of Gu^erat. 



The Indians have alfo a fort of fmall Copper Money, which is call'd Pecha j 

 which is worth about two of our Liards, a Liard being the fourth part of a 

 Sous. There is alfo the Half Pecha, two Pecha's, and Four Pecha's. Accor- 

 ding to the cuftom of the Province where you travel, you have for a Roupy 

 of Silver more or lefs of thefe Pecha's. In my laft Travels, a Roupy went 

 at Sat at for nine and forty Pecha's. But the time was, when it was worth 

 fifty and another time, when it went but for fix and forty. At Agra and Ge- 

 hanabat, the Roupy was valued at fifty-five and fifty-fix Pecha's. And the 

 reafon is, becaufe the nearer you go to the Copper Mines, the more Pecha's 

 you have for a Roupy. As for the Mamoudi, it is always valued at forty 

 Pecha s. ; 



There are two other forts of fmall Money in the Dominions of the Great Mo- 

 gull* which are little bitter Almonds and Shells. Thefe little bitter Almonds, 

 which are brought out of Perfia, are only made ufe of in the Province of <W 

 ratt j as I have obferved in the firft part of my Relations. They grow in dry and 

 barren places among the Rocks, and the Tree, that bears them, is almoft like our 

 Baitard Spanijh-Broom. They call thefe Almonds Baden : Nor is there any Colo- 

 yunt>da fo bitter. They give for a Pecha fometimes thirty five, and fometimes 



Their other fmall Money are the little Shells which they call Ceri 5 the fides 

 whereof turn circularly inward : Nor are they to be found in any part of the 

 World, but in the Maldives Iflands. They are the greateft part of the Revenue 

 of the King of that Ifland. For they are tranfported into all the Territories of 

 the Great i!/^//. into the Kingdoms of Vifyour and Golconda-, and into the 

 lllands of America to ferve inftead of Money. Near the Sea they give 80 for a 

 Pecha. But the further you go from the Sea, the lefs you have 5 fo that at a™, 

 they wi I not give you above yo or cy for a Pecha. As to what remains accord- 

 ing, to the Accompt of the Indians, 



100000 Roupies make a Lekke/ 



100000 Lekks make a Kraur. 



100000 Kraur's make a Padan. 



100000 Padan's make a Nil. 

 In the'Indies the Village muft be very fmall, where there does not refide a Ban- 

 ker, whom they call Cheraf; whofe bufinefs it is to remit Money and Bills of 



Exchange. 



