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Of a person married by ambel-anak the family he married into is answerable for debts contracted during the marriage: such as were previous to it his relations must pay. Should the son use his father's name in borrowing it shall be at the lender's risk if the father disavows it. Interest of money has hitherto been three fanams per dollar per month, or one hundred and fifty per cent per annum.
Then the sheep that they kill every day are countless, one could not number them, for in every street there are men who will sell you mutton, so clean and so fat that it looks like pork; and you also have pigs in some streets of butchers' houses so white and clean that you could never see better in any country; a pig is worth four or five FANAMS. Then to see the many loads of limes that come each day, such that those of Povos are of no account, and also loads of sweet and sour oranges, and wild BRINJALS, and other garden stuff in such abundance as to stupefy one.
Females have been hitherto charged six fanams, but are now put upon a footing the same as the men. If a debtor mengiring, without security, runs away, his debt is liable to be doubled if he is absent above a week. If a man takes a person mengiring, without security for the debt, should the debtor die in that predicament the creditor loses his money, having no claim on the relations for it.
A few fanams a small copper coin were all his charge, and three or four broken biscuits in addition sent him away the happiest of mortals. It is matter of considerable surprise to every one who has seen how well the chain-pier at Brighton stands the worst weather, that no similar work has been devised at Madras.
Its current value is said to be about fifteen, and its intrinsic about twelve pence, or five Madras fanams. Eighty of these are equal to the bangkal, of which twenty make a katti. The tail, here an imaginary valuation, is one-fifth of the bangkal, and equal to sixteen mas.
Besides the pieces already mentioned, named pardaos, which are of gold, he coins silver money called fano, or fanams, which are worth sixteen of our smallest copper money.
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