Gamelle (unit)

Gamelle was an African measure of weight for rubber and was used in trade in Guinea . The larger unit, the cantar , was called the rubber qatar .

• 1 gamelle = 1/5 cantar = 195.8 kilograms

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables. Horvarth'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859, p. 52
2. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 215