'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎9] (322/1024)

Part II
-^T^HiTioodnefs to the Tmfen ,it comes to fifty-nine Sous; and eight
neneers of our Money. The other Pieces as well great as Ifaall, are in value
SC Thereat Myments they make ufe of h'ou, that come to a hundred Franks
in value j and they have little Pieces of Silver that are not worth above a
S °When they buy any Commodity, if they have not whole Pieces enough to
make up the fum , they have alwayes inftrumciits ready to cut off fo much
from a great Piece as will perfect the Payment* ^
When the tranfport their Golden Loaves, or their Boats, .into other
r t ri e s the Merchants cut them in the middle, not daring to trull the Cfe-
X who have often deceiv’d, them and hone have been more cheated than
Z Hollanders For they have a way to Huff their loaves of Gold, mfomuch
Ztvoufhall fometimes find in the middle a third part of Copper or Silver.
In all forts of Bargains the Chwe/b are fo cunning, that there are few Itran-
whom they do not over-reach •, efpecially, in Batavia, tht Hollanders
when they come firft. They carry their weights alwayes along with them
being like a Romm Beam, or a Stelleer, about eight Inches long, With which
theV weigh all the Gold and Silver which they receive. As for thefmall Money
both in China and Tanquum, it is of Copper. It is made as in Fig. 4 . They
alfo thread thefe pieces, there being a hole in the middle, 12 , 25 , 50 , and
3 oo upon a firing 3 becaufe they will not put themfelves to the trouble of
telling them, when the number exceeds a dozen.
The Gold and Silver Money e/Japon.
( A LL the Gold that comes from is of the fame goodnefs 3 fome-
XX what better than dur Louis; and is about that goodnefs for which we
^hlrpieceofOold weighs one Ounce and fix Drams, at fifty Franks
%S"T;r;T,e*Io«™ a " t 5«r°pkS; bit Gold, and every o», w.ighs
a third part of the great one ; which is half an Ounce, and 48 Grains; ana
comes to 29 Livres, 3 Sous, and 4 Deneers. . ,
Fir , This, as it is mark’d is tne backfide of the three pieces of Gold.
fL « and 6 . ate pieces of Silver of the fame weight; every one weigh
ing 4 Grains lefs than our pieces of 30 Sous, though it go neverthelefs for
the fame value. As for the Silver, it is the fame m S^dnefs with our Mo-
ney. However, in the Territories of the Great Mogul, whither the HoUn-
dels carry all their Silver, their Bars, and pieces, to coin them into Mo
ney, fometimes they fell them to the Bankers where they have _no conve
nience of coinage, as at Surat and Hgra ; and thefe Bankers, give them from
two to three ill the hundred more than they will give for our Crowns, Kit-
dollars, or Svamjh Reals.
%. 7. is the baekfide of the two Silver pieces.
rr.
The Portraiture of the Silver Ingots c/Japon, which, go for Motley.
| Said before, that ail the Silver that comes out of Jafohfis equal in goodnefs to
Fig. 1. An Ingot of this form weighs feven ounces, at three Livres ten Sous
the ounce : the whol§ comes to twenty fourJLivres, and ten Sous* ^ ^