_ 258 _ Of Wire Thread: Wirethread is weighed by mãos of tare. In each mão of pícotá it has 1½ quiazes and 1 Ormuz metical. With its pícotá the mão has 2 arratels, 3 ounces 4 ½ Ormuz meticals. Of Borneo Camphor: Borneo Camphor is weighed by Shiraz meticals. It has no pícotá. The mark has 50 meticals. The metical is worth 5 candils. It varies very little from this. However, much comes to Ormuz will be sold. Of Civet: Civet is weighed in Shiraz meticals. It has no pícotá, 50 meticals weigh the same as one of our marks . [fol, 9v,] Good vivet is worth 1 metical 1 azar. There is another kind here that is a mixture. It is used as an enema for horses that are transported to India and is worth a lot less. Of Raw Silk: Raw silk is weighed by faraçolas. It has no pícotá. It has very small weight, no other merchandize is weighed by it except raw silk. The faraçola has 10 mãos and each mão has 216 Ormuz meticals. In each faraçola there are exactly 18 arratels. Of Gold: Gold id weighed in Ormuz meticalsof 60 to the mark. It has no pícotá. A metical of gold, being of purity(A) (A) We do not dare to decipher the abbreviation Xc which refers to the gold alloy. Can it mean 10 carats (quilates/carantes)? As for the
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