Parti! 



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, Fig. ^. 



HIS Money (Fig.i.) is call'd 

 Larin , and fignkies the fame 

 with ouv 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 

 Emirs , or Princes of Arabia 

 take for the Coining of their 

 Money ; and the profit which 

 they make by the Merchants 

 that travel through the Defart, 



either into Perfia 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 neceffity pafs 

 that way. And they muft ufe very fmooth words to boot ; for there is nothing 

 lobe got by rough Languages. If they fee the Merchants will not change their 

 Money, then will they refufe to take their Toll -, but making as if they had 

 not time to caft up the accompt, they go a hunting, and leave the Merchants 

 fifteen or twenty days without faying any thing more to themj while they 

 jn the mean time fpend their provisions , not knowing where to get more. 

 If the Caravan goes 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 lèverai times done. In one Journey that I made., 

 one of thefe Princes kept us one and twenty days j 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 Spain, 

 the Merchants would never be much troubled. But when they come to Perfia, 

 or the Indies s they muft carry their Money to the Mint, as I have laid in 

 another place , and loofe above ei^ht Sous in a Crown , which amounts to 

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



iM. of 



The Author not ha- 

 ving given an account of 

 the weight or finenefs 

 of the Coins he treats 

 of, but having only ex- 

 prefs'd their value in 

 French Livres, it is 

 thought fit for the bet- 

 ter reduction thereof 

 into Enghfk Coin,to ad- 

 vertife , That Three 

 French Livres make a 

 French Crown, which 

 pafTes in Exchange 

 from J4 pence to j8 

 pence half-penny ; Co 

 that a French 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» 



