The people who trade to this port are from China, Bengal, Pegu, Java, Coromandel, Guzerata, Arabia, and _Rumos_. _Rumos_ is in the Red-Sea, whence Solomon sent his ships to Ophir for gold; which Ophir is now Acheen, as they affirm upon tradition; and the _Rumos_ people have followed the same trade from the time of Solomon to this day.[42] Their payments are made in different denominations, called cash, mas, cowpan, pardaw, and tayel. I only saw two sorts of coin, one of gold, and the other of lead: The gold coin, or _mas_, is of the size of a silver-penny, and is as common at Acheen as pence are in England. The other, of lead, called _cash_, is like the little leaden tokens used in London by the vintners: 1600 _cashes_ make one _mas_; 400 _cashes_ make a _cowpan_, and four cowpans a mas; five _mases_ are equal to four shillings sterling; four _mases_ make a _pardaw_, and four _pardaws_ a _tayel_. Hence one _mas_ is 9-3/5d. sterling; one pardaw, 3s. 2-2/5d.; one _tayel_, 12s. 9-3/5d.; one cowpan, 2-3/5d.; and one cash is a two-hundredth part of a penny. Pepper is sold by the _Bahar_, which is 360 English pounds, for 3l. 4s. Their pound is called _catt_, being twenty-one of our ounces; and their ounce is larger than ours in the proportion of sixteen to ten. They sell precious stones by a weight named _masse_, 10-3/4 of which make an ounce. [Footnote 42: The Turks are called _Rumos_ in India, because their chief city, Constantinople, was called New Rome. Their tradition of Ophir is more to be marked than this conceit of _Rumos_ in the Red-Sea.--_Purchas_, in a marginal note. The Egyptians might follow this trade from the days of Solomon, but the _Rums_, or Romans, could not, as they did not possess Egypt till long after Solomon.--Astl. 1. 260. c. It would be too long, in a note, to enter upon any critical discussion respecting the _Ophir_ of Solomon, which was more probably at _Sofala_, on the eastern coast of Africa.--E.]