A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century Papyras Classics

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Chapter 22

Beledyn Ginger

Beledyn ginger grows at a distance of two or three leagues all round the city of Calicut, and the bahar is worth lx fanoes, and sometimes fifty, they bring it to the city for sale, from the mountains and estates. The Indian merchants buy it in detail and collect it together, and then in the season for loading ships they sell it to the Moors at prices from ninety to a hundred and ten fanoes; its weight is the greater weight.