[1] This Letter Is Dated 16th September 1502; And By It P. Pascquali Appears To Have Gone From Portugal Into Spain:

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SECTION V.

_Of the Weights and Money of Calicut, and of the places whence they procure their Spices_[1].

Having already treated concerning the articles of commerce of all kinds in the Indies, it is proper to give some account of the prices and weights of these. In the city of Calicut a _bahar_ of nutmegs is sold for 450 _favi_. A bahar consists of four quintals, of 100 pounds each, and twenty _favis_ are equal to a ducat. A bahar of cinnamon costs 390 favi. A _faracula_, or the twentieth part of a bahar of dried ginger, is six favi. A faracula of candied ginger is twenty-eight favi. A bahar of tamarinds thirty favi. A bahar of the best pepper 400 favi. A bahar of _zerombeci_ forty favi. A bahar of myrabolans 560 favi. A bahar of zedoary thirty favi. A bahar of red sanders eighty favi. A bahar of lac 260 favi. A bahar of _sanasius_ 160. A bahar of mastic 430 favi. A _faracula_ of camphor 160. A bahar of pepper 360. A faracula of frankincense five favi. A faracula of benzoin six favi. A faracula of aloes wood 400 favi. A faracula of cassia eleven favi. A faracula of rhubarb 400 favi. A bahar of cloves 600 fevi. A faracula of opium 400 favi. A bahar of white sanders 700 favi. A mitrical of ambergris, or six ounces and a quarter.

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