Note 50 — The Ottoman Turks and the Routes of Oriental Trade

For this drainage of the precious metals eastward see Masson, pp. xxxii, 371, 374, 487; Savary, op. cit., p. 835; Vansleb, op. cit., pp. 110, 127, 128; Thévenot, op. cit., ii. 77, 156. Thévenot says (p. 77), ‘it may be said of Persia, that it is a Kervanserai that serves for passage to the money that goes out of Europe and Turkey to the Indies; and to the Stuffs and Spices that come from the Indies, into Turkey and Europe, whereof it makes some small profit in the passage.’ See also Olivier, iv. 434, and P. Blancard, Manuel du Commerce des Indes, Paris, 1806, pp. 70, 106.