Indian Antiquary Vol 59

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 336

THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
YOVEMBER, 1930
R. Rups Cotton broack, 21 maund to the candy..
53 iu 65 Rhubarb . . . . . Cubebs .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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44 and
upwards. Redwood
2 @ 3) [added in pencil) Rosumalloes
(50 @ 55) [Endorsed] Price Current Suratt
March 31st 1711. [Note.--The figures within square brackets are added in pencil in the margin.)
[Notes on DOCUMENT No. 6.] The greater number of the articles named in this list were imports from China.
Maund of 40 seer. The modern Indian standard maund (man) is of the same content, 40 seer (ser) of 80 tola of 180 grains. See Yule, Hobson-Jobson, 8. v. Maund: Secr: Tola.
Tutaneg. Port. tutenaga, spelter.
China Cash, 40 Seer, 13 R. There is something wrong here. Scattergood probably intended to give the correct rate of exchange for cash in Surat, the usual nominal value of which was 1000 to the dollar. See Vols. XXVI and XXVII, Currency and Coinage among The Burmese.
China Root. Smilax pseudo-China. See Travels of Peter Mundy, ed. Temple, III. 212. Gambodia. Gamboge from Cambodia and China. Hartall. Hartál, arsenic.
Bohee Tea. Black tea.. The term Bohea s derived from the Wu-i hills in the Fuhkien province of China. Milburn, Oriental Commerce, II. 521, 8.v. Black Teas, remarks: -"Bohea or Voo-yee, the name of the country, is in the province of Fokien, and is very hilly, not only the hills are planted with tea trees, but the vallies also : the former are reokoned to grow the best tea.”
Tinkull. Tinkal, borax.
St. Lack Pegu : Seed Lack. Pegu stick-lac, i.e., the wax of the luchardiu lacca, formed on trees, in its natural state. Seed-lac is the term applied to the substance when separated from the twigs and broken into small pieces. Ser Milburn, op. cit., II. 216.
Sandal Mallabar. Sandal wood from the Malabar Coast.
Cow beazor. For bezoar, a medicinal stone found in the bodies of certain animals, see Yule, Hobson-Jobson, 8.v. Bezoar, and for "Gowloochon" (gau-lochan) or cow-bezoar, see John Marshall in India, p. 344.
Dammar: Acheen. Damar, resin used for pitch, from Achin, Sumatra.
Cochineal, seer pucka of near 30 ounces. Cochineal weighed by the pakka ser, the larger of the two kinds in use at Surat.
Sapan wood the maund of 42 seer. Sappan-wood, also called Redwood and Brazil-wood, the wood of the Casalpinia Sappan. Here the content of the man varies from that given for quicksilver.
Betle nut. Betel, the name given to the fruit of the Areca Catechu, which is chewed with the leaf of the Piper Betle.
Copra. Khoprd, dried coco-nut.
Gallingal China. Galangal, Alpinia Galanga, the aromatic root of which was formerly used in medicine.