Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 48
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications
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SxPr., 1919)
NOTES ON CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE
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1421. He gave Sultan Shah eight balish of silver, thirty dresses of royal mægnificence, & mule, twenty-four pieces of kalal'l. Embassy of Shah Rukh to China, in Yule, Cathay, vol. I, p. ccviii. Yule's note on this is :-"Ta ? Quatre-mère does not translate it. Astly hes under petticoats '!" 1552. Tin, which the people of the country call Calom, Castenheda, vol. III, p. 213.
It is mentioned as a staple of Malacca at p. 186 of vol. II (Yule, Hobson-Jobson, 8.v. Calay).
1606. That all the chalices that were neither of gold, por silver, por of tin, por of walaim, should be broken up and destroyed. Gouvea, Synodo, f. 29b (quoted in Yule, op. cit., loc. cit.).
1608. Another metal called Calin, which is white like tin, but harder, purer, and finer, and much used in the Indies.... In these galiots they have a number of drinking vessels like glass water-bottles, 'but made of cally, a white metal like tin, but much harder.
.. (Malacca ) plenty of the metal called salin, which is much esteemed all over the Indies, and even in Persia and elsewhere. It is as hard as silver and es white as tin, and it gets whiter with use. Pyrard de Laval, Hak. Soc. ed., vol. I, pp. 235, 441 ; vol. II, p. 176 (quoted in Yule, op. cit., loc.cit.).
1808. Some of this money (at Goa) is of iron, the rest of callin, a metal of China. Pyrard de Laval, Hak. Soc. ed., vol. II, p. 68.
1010. They carry (to Hormuz), clove, cinnamon, pepper, cardamom, ginger, mace, nutmeg, sugar, calayn, or tin. Relacones de P. Texeira, p. 382 (quoted in Yule, HobsonJobson, 8.v. Calay).
1613. And he also reconnoitred all the sites of mines of gold, silver, mercury, tin or calem, and iron and other metals. Godinho de Eredia, f. 58 (quoted in Yule, Hobson-Jobson, 3.v. Calay).
1844. All the drugs of the South, with Callaym, Tutunaga, wares of China and Portugal. Bocarro, MS. f. 316 (quoted in Yule, op. cit., loc. cit.).
1646. Il y a i.e., in Sism) plusieurs minieres de salaim quiest vn metal metoyen, entre de plomb et l'estain. Cardim, Rel. de la Proy. de Japon, p. 163 (quoted in Yule, op. cit., loc. cit.).
1688. This Tin or Calin (of Siam), as the Portuguese report, is sold through all India.
The Calin or Tin. All the Calin is his (the King's), and he sells it as well to Strangers as to his own Subjects, exoepting that which is dug out of the Mines of Jonsalam [Junkceylon) on the Golph of Bengal. La Loubère, Eng. Trans., pp. 14, 94.
1726. The goods exported hither (from Pegu) are . Kalin (a metal coming very near silver). Valentijn, vol. V, p. 128 (quoted in Yule, Hobson-Jobson, 8.v. Calay).
1770. They send only one vessel (viz., the Dutch to Siam) which transports Javanese horses, and is freighted with sugar, spice and linen : for which they receive in return calin, at 70 livres 100 weight. Raynal, Eng. Trans. 1777, vol. I, p. 208 (quoted in Yule, op. cit., Loc. cit.).
1780. You find the port of Quedah: there is a trade for calin or tutenague. Dunn, Directory, p. 388.
1782. On y (Pegu) trouve des mines d'or, d'argent, de cuivre et de calin, mais on ne les exploite pas... (Malacoa) on trouve de salla a la superficie de la terre, espèce d'étain que l'on porte en Chine ... M. Daubenton. & analysé quelques morceaux de
