Malay Peninsula.] OH1ENTAL COMMEKCE. 



sold are never opened, but are taken on the seller's report ; and no instance 

 is known of any fraud ever having been practised on such occasions. 



Peovisions and Refreshments. — Sheep and bullocks are scarce here; 

 but there arc buffaloes, hogs, poultry, and fish in plenty. Here are the 

 finest yams of any produced in India, and a great variety of fruits, amongst 

 the rest raangosteens and pine-apples in abundance. Water is brought off 

 in bulk, for which you pay one dollar a butt ; but it is sometimes brackish. 



Coins. — They have no particular coins of their own ; some few Dutch 

 schillings and stivers are to be seen ; the rest are gold, as coupangs, ducats, 

 &c. ; but all contracts for goods, bought or sold, are made in Dutch dollars. 



Accounts are kept in rix-dollars, scliillings, stivers, and doits, which 

 arc thus divided : — 



4- doits make 1 stiver. 



6 stivers „ 1 schilling. 



ft schillings ; 1 rix-dollar. 



All Indian coins are current here. The following are the rates at 

 which they usually pass;— 



Bombay rupee 6 schillings. 



Madras rupee 4 ditto. 



Spuria!] dollar 10 ditto. 



Japan cobangj stamped 80 schillings. 



Much t«on 13 ditto. 



English crown 10 ditto. 



A dubbeltjee is 10 doits, and 3 are equal to a tangre or schilling. 

 10 tangres, or 68 stivers, equal to a Spanish dollar, exchange for 27 dub- 

 beltjees, 2 doits. H Spanish dollar, equal to a pagoda, exchanges for 10 

 dubbeltjees, 8 doits. 2 rupees, or 24 dubbeltjees, are equal to 1 Keesers 

 daaldar. 



Weights. — AH goods are weighed here by the dotchin, for winch 1 per 

 cent, is paid to the Captain of the Chinese, who is dotchin-keeper. 



(the at Weights, 



16 tales make 1 catty. 



100 cutties • 1 pecuL 



3 pc evils 1 bahar. 



Gold Weights. 



\ti miiims make 1 buncaJ. 



SO bunculs m l catty, 



equal to 29 oz. 17 tlwts. 16 grs. troy. 



The pecul weighs 135 lbs. avoirdupois ; but what is called the China 

 pecul at Malacca, weighs only 125 lbs. 



Measures. — 1 ganton is equal to G Dutch lbs. or 6$ lbs. avoirdupois ; 

 10 ganton*, one measure ; 50 measures, 1 last ; SOO gantons, 1 quoyane. 

 40 China peculs make a quoyane of rice, which then weighs 5400 lbs. avoir- 

 dupois. 



A kip of tin contains 15 bedoors, or 30 tampangs, and weighs 3?^ lbs. 

 Dutch troy, or 40 lbs. 11 oz. avoirdupois. 



The covid is two-thirds of a Dutch cllj about 18 J- English inches. 



