[59] See Satow’s Voyage of Capt.  John Saris, ut supra, pp. 224, 225, 228, 229, for names and prices of various kinds of silks.

[60] Cuarto:  a copper coin worth four maravedis.

[61] Saris (Voyage, pp. 216, 225) mentions the following Chinese goods:  “Veluet Hangings imbroydered with gold, eighteene Rialls; vpon Sattins, fourteene Rials.”  “Imbrodered Hangings, called Poey, the best ten Rials the piece.”

[62] Spanish, palo de China; also known as “China root;” the root of Smilax china.  It is not now used, but formerly had great repute for the cure of venereal diseases as well as for gout.  Linschoten has a long account of its virtues and mode of use, in Voyage (Hakluyt Society’s edition), ii, pp. 107-112; see also i, p. 239.  Cf.  Pyrard de Laval’s Voyage, i, p. 182.

[63] The cruzado was an old coin of Castilla and Portugal.  The Castilian coin was of gold, silver, or copper, and of different values.  The Portuguese coin, evidently the one of our text, was worth ten reals de vellon in Spain.  See Dicc. nacional ... de la lengua Espanola (Madrid, 1878).

[64] So in the copy which we follow.  Literally translated this is “butter,” which causes doubt as to the correctness of the copy.

[65] The larin was a silver coin that takes its name from the city of Lar in Persia.  It has been current in a number of eastern countries and districts, among them Persia, the Maldives, Goa, and the Malabar coast, Ceylon, and Kandy.  It has gone out of circulation, although the name is preserved in certain copper coins at the Maldives.  The ancient coin was of various shapes, that of the Maldives being about as long as the finger and double, having Arabic characters stamped on it; that of Ceylon resembled a fishhook:  those of Kandy are described as a piece of silver wire rolled up like a wax taper.  When a person wishes to make a purchase, he cuts off as much of this silver as is equal in value to the price of the article.  Its probably first mention by an European writer occurs in the Lembrancas das Cousas de India (Subsidios iii, 53), in 1525, where the following table is given:  2 fules = 1 dinar; 12 dinars = 1 tanga; 3 tangas 10 dinars = 1 new larin; 3 tangas 9 dinars = 1 old larin.  At Cambaye (p. 38) 1 tanga larin = 60 reis, and 45 larins weighed 1 Portuguese marco, or 50 grammes.  Antonio Nunes (1554) in his Livro dos Pesos, says:  “At the port of Bengala, 80 couries = 1 pone; 48 pones = 1 larin.  The Portuguese marco of the time of Joao III, being equivalent to 2,500 reis, would make the larin worth 51,012 reis.”  Davy says that the larin of Kandy was worth about 7d. in English currency.  For detailed information about the larin, see Voyage of Pyrard de Laval, ut supra, i, p. 232 and note 2; and ii, p. 68.