22 Travels in I^dia. Part H. 



Real, like our white Crown, is but juft eleven Deneers. The Mexican Re.^1 

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

 leventy-three Vais, you have four Mamoudi's and a hah!, and one Mamoudi is 

 worth twenty Pecha's ; tut they muft be very "good, and as I have faid al- 

 ready, ièventy-three Vais in weight: eighty-one Vais making an Ounce, one 

 Val coming to (even Deneers.' 



For the Rixdollars of Germany, in regard they are heavier than thé 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, oranhûn-, 

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

 it feems that every Roupy ought to be worth lefs than thirty Soijs\ But if] 

 the Merchant count the portage of the Silver, and the Cuftoms, he will/rfn$; 

 that every Roupy will (land him in more. But that the Merchant may, makjç. 

 his profit, he muft take notice, that all the Reals of Mexico, and tnpfe of Syvif. 

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

 and twelve Grains ; and for thofè 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 weighed, a 

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

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



We come now to the Money of the Country. The ' Indian. Money is t^ 

 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 allô another fort of Sijver tyîcç. 

 ney, which they call Mamoudi's, but this goes no-where but in Sttrat 3 and; in , 

 the Province of Gu&erat. 



The Indians have alfo a fort of fmall Copper Money, which is caird .Pech.a_j 

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

 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 r 

 ziSiïrat 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 Âgra and -Gàfr, 

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

 reàTon 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 M# Pi 

 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 G^e^., 

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

 barren places among the Rocks, and the free, that bears them,, is almoft like ouK 

 Baftard Spanijh-Broom. They call thefe Almonds Baden} Nor is there any C^ffe 

 quint ida Id bitter. They give for a Pecha fometimes thirty five, and fometimes. 

 forty. 



Their other fmall Money are the little Shells which they call Cori,; the fidesr 

 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 Iflând.' For they are tranfported into all the Territories of 

 the Great Mogttll 5 into the Kingdoms of Vtfapow and Golconda j and into the 

 Iflands 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 ; fo that at Agra, 

 they will not give you above y o or cj for a Pecha, As to w^at. remains accorçl- " 

 ing to the Accompt of the Indians, 



100000 Roupies make a Lekké. ' 



100000 Lekks make a Kraur. 1 " 1 



1 00000 Kraufs make a Padan. 



100000 Padan's make a Nil. 

 In the Indie //the Village muft be very fmall, where there does not refide a Ban^ 

 kety whom they call Cher off; whofe bufinefs it is to remit Money and Bills çf, 



Exchange. 



