[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1928) › c5.41 # The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c5.41 The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c5.41 - **Language:** English ### [c5.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1928.c5.41) ² J. Garson da Cunha, \*Notes on the History and Antiquities of Chaul and Bassein\*, p. 69. The pay of the Portuguese soldiers continued to be poor when Hamilton visited the west coast of India in the second decade of the 18th century. He wrote: ‘Their soldiers’ pay is very small and ill paid. They have but six Xerapheens per month and two suits of calico, stript or chequered in a year. Their two suits may amount to forty Xerapheens; and a Xerapheen is worth about sixteen pence half peny ster. Out of their six Xerapheens in money that they are to receive, their Captain who is Barrack-Master and Victualler to his Company detains five, and the other one is paid in small money to discharge the Accounts of the Shoemaker, Tailor, Barber, Washerman and Tobacconist.’ \*A New Account of the East Indies\*, Vol. I, pp. 249-50. - [Previous: c5.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1928.c5.40) - [Next: c5.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1928.c5.42) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1928.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1928.c5.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1928.c5.41) · Pramāṇa