_ 268 _ do not give a pícotá. Each mão weighs 4 arratels, 2 ounces 51/2 eighths. The mão of the retails ship has 4 arratels, and no more, because it has 24 quiazes. Each quiaz has 2 ounces 5 eighths. The bahar has 7 quintals, 20 arratels, 15 ounces, 2 eighths. Of Wheat: Wheat is bought and sold by the bahar as well as by the mão. It is identical with that of rice, with no difference whatsoever. Of Barley: Barley is in every respect like rice and wheat. Fol. 15 Of Butter: Butter is sold by the mão. It comes here from Basra and Rishahr. Most of what comes to Ormuz is from Diulcinde and Manglore. It comes in large leather jars. These jars are bundled together and weighed by the capão, which is the weight in the city. After weighing, they deduct the tare and add one mão as a pícotá to every 10 mãos. In this place they know what each jar holds. They also weigh small pieces of butter by the mão. Nevertheless, it has a pícotá. Since they do not give a pícotá in the retail shops, there is mão on everything, as with rice. Of Sesame Oil: Sesame, mustard-seed and coco oil are identical in every respect to rice and butter.
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