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

Note 118 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3]

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

This observation is owing to the Moorish coins of the Almohade dynasty having been square, which gave rise to the Spanish saying of spendthrifts: "My money rolls, as it is not Moorish."

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