ADDENDA. 
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A minkalli of gold is considered by Mr. Park (Journal 
p. 58,) as weighing about 80 grains, or the sixth part of 
an ounce Troy ; which nearly agrees with the value 
ascribed to it in the list of Sansanding prices, where it is 
estimated at 12^. 6d. sterling.* The sixth part of an 
ounce of gold at the mint price in this country, and of the 
standard fineness, would be not quite 6d. more. Taking 
therefore the value of the minkalli at 12s. 6d. it will be 
found that 20 cowries, (the currency in which the San- 
sanding prices are computed) are nearly equal to a penny, 
that 240 of them are equal to a shilling, and 4800 to a 
pound, in the sterling money of this country. From these 
data the following observations on the prices of some of 
the principal articles may be deduced. 
The musket, standing tirst in the list of European arti- 
cles, is probably the common gun made at Birmingham, 
the price of which, to the merchants, seldom used to exceed 
lO*. 6d. If the above valuation of cowries be taken as the 
basis of the calculation, the price of this article at Sansand- 
ing was from o£l. 6s. to £l. 9s. 2d. — The Barraloolo, a 
superior kind of musket, was sold for 8000 cowries, or 
£1. 13s. 4d. — A common cutlass costs in this country from 
3^. to 45. It produced at Sansanding, from 6s. 3d. to 8^. 4d. 
which is nearly in the same proportion as the muskets. 
It is impossible to ascertain the price of gunpowder in 
the Sansanding list, (although this is an important com- 
mercial article), owing to the circumstance of its having 
been sold in bottles, and the quantity contained in each 
* In the Journal, p. 162, there is a typographical error in stating that four 
minkallies are equal to £3. 3. In the MS. it is Jive minkallies. 
