Frank is a name given in the East to all western
Christians, ever since the expedition to the Holy Land, because the
French were the chief nation on that occasion, and because the French
council at Clermont was the cause of that event.
- Purch.]
Carpets of all sorts, some of silk and gold, silk and silver, half silk,
half cotton, &c. The silver monies of Persia are the abacee, mahamoody,
shakee, and biftee, the rest being of copper, like the tangas and
pisos of India. The abacee weighs two meticals, the mahmoody is
half an abacee, and the shahee is half a mahamoody. In the dollar or
rial of eight there are thirteen shahees.[160] In a shahee there are two
biftees and a half, or ten cashbegs, one biftee being four
cashbegs, or two tangs. The weights differ in different places; two
mahans of Tauris being only one of Ispahan, and so of the batman.
The measure of length, for silks and other stuffs, is the same with the
pike of Aleppo, which we judge to be twenty-seven English inches.
[Footnote 160: Assuming the Spanish dollar at 4s. 6d. sterling, the
shahee ought therefore to be worth about 4d. 1-6, the mahamoody,8d. 1-3,
and the abecee, 1s. 4d. 2-3. - E.]
John Crowther returned into India, and Richard Steel went to England by
way of Turkey, by the following route. Leaving Ispahan on the 2d
December, 1615, he went five p. to a serail.
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