Linschoten has a long account of its virtues and mode of use, in _Voyage_ (Hakluyt Society's edition), ii, pp.

107-112; see also i, p.239.Cf.

Pyrard de Laval's _Voyage_, i, p.

182.
[63] The cruzado was an old coin of Castilla and Portugal.

The Castilian coin was of gold, silver, or copper, and of different values.