cowrie

• The cowrie, so frequently mentioned in Park's Travels, is here the chief medium of circulation. —  Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
• One African tribe calls forty 'ogodze,' which means 'string,' because they use cowrie-shells strung together by forties for counting. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• Let us for ever shut out the idea of laying up a cowrie (mite) for ourselves or our children. —  Life of William Carey
• Know, that there is no dealing here except by cowries, and the cowrie is 3,500 to a mithcal. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• Some rice, cowrie-shells, a winnowing-fan and other articles are placed on the grave. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II

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