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exercifed by the Naybe, who takes, under the name of cuf- 
toms, whatever part he pleafes of the goods and provifions 
brought to that ifland; by which means the profit of the 
feller is fo fmall, as not to be worth the pains and rifk of 
bringing it: 20 rotol of butter coft a pataka and a half, 34 
harf ; or, in one term, 454 harf. A goat is half of a pataka; 
a fheep, two-thirds of a pataka; the ardep of Neat 4 pa- 
takas; Dora, from Arabia, 2 patakas.. 
Venit, viliffima-rerum,.. 
Hic aqua. Horat. lib: 1Sati6. 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 glafs beads, called Contaria, of all 
kinds and colours, perfect and broken, pafs forimall money, 
and are called, in their language, Borjooke.. 
| LaBce of the relative vatur of Monzr. 
Venetian Sequin, . —- 2) Pataka.: 
Pataka or Imperial Dollar, 28 Harf.. 
1 Harf, | —- — 4..Diwani. 
to Kibeer,, —- — 1 Diwani, . 
1 Kibeer, | —. —- ‘3 Borjooke, or Grains, 
Tue 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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