arroba

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• For example: up the river crude rubber can be bought for twenty-five cents a pound; the trader pays twenty-five cents an arroba (thirty-two pounds) for transportation to Pará from Santarem, exclusive of canoe hire and shipping; thirteen per cent. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• [186] Price of best flour, $3 60 per quintal; butter, thirty cents a pound; beef, $1 an arroba (twenty-five pounds); refined sugar, $3 50 an arroba; brown sugar (_rapidura_),[187] five cents a pound; cigars, from six to sixteen for a dime; cigarettes, five cents a hundred. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
• One pair of scales I found to be so heavily leaded that the hemp that weighed 25 pounds on them weighed between 38 and 39 pounds on a true English scales 4] A pikul is the equivalent of 137.5 Spanish pounds 5] An arroba is 25 Spanish pounds Another method of defraudation consisted in false accounts. —  The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
• He left the island in 1546 142-2] This last part of this sentence should read, "and is cultivated with mames_, kidney beans, other beans, this same panic [_i.e._, Indian corn], etc." The corresponding passage in the Historie of Ferdinand Columbus reads, "and another grain like panic called by them mahiz of very excellent flavor cooked or roasted or pounded in porridge (polenta)," p. 87 142-3] The arroba was 25 pounds and the quintal one hundred weight 143-1] In Las Casas, I. —  The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

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