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JANUARY, 1898.) CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
He also gives a résumé of the information in Le Loubèro, no 1688, from which can be extracted the following table :
4 payes are I fuang 2 fusings I mayon 4 mayons 1 tical 4 ticals 1 tavel 20 taels 1 catty
50 catties » I pics1 At p. 244 be quoton Vanschouten, 1636, to the following effect:
2 foangs are 1 mace 4 mace , 1 tical (4 ticals i thel)
20 taelsn catty His own information can be tabulated thus (p. 257): - 1,200 oowries are, 1 frang 2 fuang
I salung 2 salang , 1 songsalang 2 songkalung , I tical
4 tical ... 1 tael 20 tael
I catty 3 Bowring also gives a table from the French authorities as follows:
Avoirdapois Weight.
owt.
qr.
se.
grs.
=
45
24
- Hùng =
Foang Salang Bat Xang Cati35 Kab7
18 1,440 720 72
so so so so so so,
7-6170 8.0949 6.1898 4.7597 0-781136 0-9955 4460
kg.
2
Put in another form, which will be found later on to be of great value in determining the true relation of the Siamese to other Far Eastern soales, the above tables can be stated thus: -
5 hùnse are 1 flang 2 füang
1 saling 4 salung
1 båt 80 bât
. 1 Siamese catty (zang) 40 båt
, 1 Chinese catty 100 Chinese catties , 1 hap (picul) See E.T., p. 164. In a letter from the English factors at Ayuthia, dated 1875, we And Accounting 20 taile to the catt:" and "215 Catt, 8 Too: a Mous." Anderson, Siam, p. 123.
#1 Mistake for picul, based on La Loubère. » Mandelslö, Travels into the East Indies, 1659, E. T., P. 104, gives the scale in full, as in the text.
3 Pages 259 .., he gives derivations, following La Loubère, for the terms, which can now be shown to be quite erroneous. * I. s., chang or Siamese catty.
* I..., Chinese catty. * 2875 lbs, av., according to Book, Tumples and Elephants, p. 141.
Should be hab (hap). * From the Cambodian tables above given we see that this is meant for the condareen or seed of the Adenanthera patonina.
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