_ 355 _ arose in two ways; one a tax on the goods entering and leaving the city of Ormuz; the other form of revenue was from the crops, tributes and taxes on the lands of the kingdom, as well as from part of Arabia and Persia and from certain islands in the seas within the entrance to the Straits. The revenues from entry to the city were levied by customs, regularly time amounting to a hundred xerafins, equivalent to thirty contos in our currency. Other taxes arising in the city amounted to forty-one thousand three hundred xerafins. The revenues arising in Arabia and Persia are from boroughs and townships in the seaports, and a few inland. The principals are like our almoxarifado (receivers of revenue collecting districts who have authority over all the others in their district, (as we related of the revenue collecting districts of Goa.) The Governors of these principals are called Guazil, and their office is called Guazilado. The most important of these on the coast of Arabia is the borough of Kalhat, which yields nineteen thousand two hundred xerafins by this means. Kalhat itself 11,000; Muscat 4,000; Sohar 1,500; Khor Fakan the same; Daba 500; Laos 700; Julfar, which is another Guazilado in this part of Arabia, together with its whole district, yields 7,500 xerafins. Some pearl fishing vessels do not put in there, if they are fishing in the area,
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