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The deer from whose glands musk is extracted.

Cobra snake.

Gymnosophists near temples in India. 6: The author and a Dutch officer explore the lodgings of an itinerant fakir.

Indian gymnosophist.

Weapon used by the Muslim fakirs of India.

Dutch ship in which the author sailed from India to China. On the right, the emblem of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie).

Coins of the Great Mongols of India.

Coins of one king and two majarajas, all tributaries of the emperor of the Great Mongols of India.

1,2. Coins minted by English merchants and colonists of Fort Saint George at Madras (today Chennai), India. 3-8. Coins minted by Dutch merchants and colonists of Pulicat (today Pazhaverkadu), India.

1-4. Coins of the kingdom of Assam (today in India). 5-6. Coins of the kingdom od Arakan (today in Burma). 7-10 Coins of the kingdom of Pegu (today Bago in Burma). 11 -12. Coins of the kingdom of Assam (today in India).

Coins bearing the symbols of astrological signs. They were commissioned by emperor Shah Mugal Jahan in honour of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, and minted in the twenty-four hours that he permitted her to reign in his place.

Coins minted by Portuguese merchants and colonists of Goah, India.

The numbers used by speakers of all the languages of India alike, for financial and other transactions.

1-2: Golden coins of the Sultanate of Golkonda, India. 3-4: Coins of the kingdom of Visapur, India. 5,6. Coins of the Maharajah of Karnataka, India. 7-8. Coins of the Maharajah of Vellore, India. 9-12. Coins of the Maharajahs of Karnataka and Vellore. 13-17. Coins of the region of Coromandel at the eastern coast of India.