Fardo

Fardo was a measure of weight in Goa and was called the rice measure. It was a round package of 42 pounds (Portuguese) tied in straw and rope. It weighed 3 ½ maunds .

A fardo was also given as 32 pounds, but also as 80 pounds; it is unclear which pound is meant.

literature

• Carl Günther Ludovici, Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened academy of merchants, or encyclopedic merchant lexicon, everything worth knowing and non-profit in the broad areas of commercial science and commerce in general. Volume 3, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. 377

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Julius Friedrich Höpfner: German Encyclopedia or general real dictionary of all arts and sciences. Volume 9, Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1784, p. 520
2. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 90
3. ^ Johann E. Wappäus, Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein, Johann Hartwig Brauer, Johann Heinrich Plath: Handbook of geography and statistics for the educated estates. Volume 2, Edition 3, JC Hinrichs' sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1864, p. 298