[181] The fanão of Calecut (according to Nunes, O Livro dos Pesos, 1554) is worth 25-5/7 reis, or 7.45d. Three hundred reis of the coinage of 1485 were of the value of 7s. 7d., taking the gold cruzado at 9s. 8d.
[182] The bahar at Calecut is equivalent to 208.16 kilogrammes (Nunes, O Livro dos Pesos.)
[183] The xerafin at Calecut is worth about 7s. 5d.; the sum demanded therefore amounted to £223.
[184] Can this be Ormuz?
[185] This Moor was Monçaide, elsewhere more accurately referred to as “a Moor of Tunis”. See Appendix E.
[186] The author says nineteen; but it appears from what precedes that there were only eighteen in all. See Appendix E.
[187] The author says Wednesday, but that day was the 22nd.
[188] A reference to the 600 xerafins.
[189] The “tenor”, not the literal phraseology; and hence the absence of the complimentary verbiage so usual with Orientals must not be interpreted as an intentional insult to the King of Portugal.
[190] This pillar was dedicated to S. Gabriel. There exists apparently no record of its having actually been set up by the king, as promised.