Kersies, Eighty-Four Mahmudies The Piece, Being Less
Than Ours Cost In England.
Lead; the great maund, of thirty-three
pounds, seven one-third mahmudies.
Tin, the small maund, of
twenty-five pounds, five and a half dollars. At Dabul, iron sold for
twenty-one dollars the bahar, of 360 pounds. Damasked pieces,[418]
from twelve to eighteen dollars each. Elephants teeth, sixty-five
mahmudies the great maund, of thirty-three pounds. Indigo
cirkesa,[419] three sorts, the best at fourteen rupees, each worth
half a dollar; the second sort, twelve rupees, and the third, eight
rupees for the great maund, of thirty-three pounds. Three sorts of
Lahore indigo, being the best of all, the best, thirty-six, the second,
thirty, and the third, twenty-four rupees for a maund weighing
fifty-five pounds. Charges of bringing it to the water-side, ten in the
100 for the cirkesa, and twenty in the 100 custom for the lahore
indigo.
[Footnote 418: Perhaps these were damasked gun-barrels. - E.]
[Footnote 419: Cirkesa, by others named Serkes and Sherkes, is a village
near Ahmedabab, the capital of Cambaya, or Guzerat, where indigo is
made. - Astl. 466. d.]
The 23d May, the Thomas, having forty-nine men all in health, set sail
for Socotora for aloes, and to go thence for Priaman and Tekoo in
Sumatra, for pepper. The 8th August the Hector sailed for Priaman and
Tekoo, having eighty-eight Englishmen aboard in perfect health, the
monsoon being now favourable. The 10th and 11th all reckonings were
cleared between us and the junks Hassani, Caderi, Mahmudi, Rehemi, and
Salameti.
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