Note 20 — WILLIAM ENDICOTT’S NARRATIVE
Reading edition
From the Malay “to carry on the back”,—a man’s burden. A commercial weight varying in different countries. In the Philippines, where the beche-de-mer was sold, it was 140 lbs.
Reading edition
From the Malay “to carry on the back”,—a man’s burden. A commercial weight varying in different countries. In the Philippines, where the beche-de-mer was sold, it was 140 lbs.