_ 270 _ Of Charcoal: The weight of charcoal is like that of rice above. Of Grease: Grease is the same as rice above, coir and Baghdad pitch, as regards weight. Of Tar: Tar is identical with rice in weight. Fol. 16 Coins: A leque, which are call bad coins, is worth 50 pardaus of candils. The said leque is not a coin, but it is number used in Ormuz. Each pardau of these leques has 2 azars; each azar 10 candils; each candil 100 dinars. In this way an account is kept of the income of the customs house. One gold xerafin is worth 21 ½ good candil coins. The said xerafin is estimated at 300 reals each in Our Lord the King’s treasury and it is spent in Ormuz at this price. It used to be that in India they were worth 2 or 3 per 100 more in exchange. Nowadays they are only worth 300 reals and this seems to be because the gold content is less than it used to be. Silver tangas used to be worth 5 tangas, which is one pardau at 41/2 candils a tanga. They used to be worth 300 reals in India plus something for the exchange. Nowadays they are worth a lot more and top 5 candils a tanga. In India they are worth 5 tangas 360 reals, when there are no voyages to Bengal and Malacca, because then they are
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