_ 380 _ Two azars are worth two xerafins and ten candils half a xerafin. There are a hundred dinars in candil. Reporting the accounts using these numbers and values, the King spent each year on his kitchan 24 leques; on cardamom, betel-nut, and cloves, of which certain delicacies are made, as also are certain cordials which they take from time to time to settle the stomach, one and a half leques. About the same through the year on Hansu on roseveter aromatic vinegar and pomegranates two leques. On the barber who shaved him fifty azars. Forty azars on clothes which are placed over the lamps brought into the presence of the King. On oil, on wax for illumination and for use in the house six leques and forty-two azars and six leques three azars on five torches which burn in the palace, and the same for the five slaves who held them. For perfumes and other fragrances, two leques and a half and eight candils. Eighty azars on cottonwool with which they fill the mattresses and pillows. On sugar one leque and twenty azars. On water used in the household and the stables, which is brought from the mainland in harges, six leques. On clothes for himself, and on tunics which he gives to nobles and ambassadors, together with the expense of having then made, one hundred and two leques. One and a half on
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