[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 265.4.4 # Storia do Mogor 265.4.4 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 265.4.4 - **Language:** English ### [265.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.4.4) Some merchants take the chance of buying unopened oysters, the highest price given being one pataca per thousand. If the oysters turn-out not to be rich in pearls, they do not lose their money ; while some have such good fortune as to enrich themselves at the cost of one pataca. The fishing being over, they leave the oysters to rot, and the smell makes anyone ill who is present. They leave the oysters to decay, because in this way the pearls turn out of a better colour, and the Dutch as over-lords of the site purchase the best, and at the cheapest rates. Every year at this fishery there die without fail a considerable number of the divers while diving. There is also another fishery of a shell-fish they call changos (sankh), which is a business carried on by the Dutch only ; they carry them to Bengal and earn large profits. For the Hindus make from them bracelets, rings, and other curiosities for their women. They are always at a good price, for when any man dies all the female relations of the defunct break their bracelets and rings in sign of grief, when new ones have to be made. In this same way they fish, but at all seasons, for seed-pearls in the Persian Gulf, whence are derived a larger quantity and of higher value. - [Previous: 265.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.4.3) - [Next: 265.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.4.5) - [Up: 265.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.265.4.4) · Pramāṇa