 | Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - 1903 - 1088 페이지
...countrymen, that there is no such thing as having a cargo under 12 or 14 tuns of cowries. "As payments of this kind of specie are attended with some intricacy, the Negroes, though so simple а.ч to sell one another for shells, have contrived a kind of copper vessel, holding exactly 108 pounds,... | |
 | Jan Hogendorn, Marion Johnson - 2003 - 252 페이지
...believed in the antediluvian origin of cowries) noted copper containers used for counting by weight: "as payments in this Kind of Specie are attended with...another for Shells, have contrived a Kind of Copper Vessell, holding exactly a hundred and eight Pound, which is a great dispatch to business."71 Measurement... | |
 | 1887 - 526 페이지
...of the whiteness of the shells with the blackness of their skins. " Formerly twelve thousand-weight of these cowries would purchase a cargo of five or...Philippine islands, but they don't come up to the Multlivi'in, either in colour or clearness. The chief European market for these shells is Amsterdam,... | |
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Formerly twelve thousand-weight of these cowries would purchase a cargo of five or six hundred negroes ; but those lucrative times are now no more ; and the negroes now set such a value on their countrymen, that there is no such thing as having a cargo... 