WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Land is usually bought and sold by caballerias (33.33 acres), hectareas (2.47 acres), manzanas (a square of one hundred yards), or varas (2.78 feet). The most common weights are the quintal (a hundredweight) and the arroba (25 pounds of 16 ounces each). Among the Indios other weights and measures are used, but I could find no trustworthy information about them. They also retain the old cacao currency to some extent, and I have been offered cacao-beans for small change, as the cuartillo is not common away from the large cities.
| 400 | cacao beans | = | contle. | |||
| 8,000 | ” ” | = | jiquipil | = | 20 | contles. |
| 24,000 | ” ” | = | carga | = | 3 | jiquipiles. |