I hope to find some occupation in Asheville until the time of my tr-rial.
"A Tar-Heel Baron"
Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
This day I got a note of the prices of commodities, as lately bought and sold at Surat, of the following tenor:-Broad-cloth of twenty pounds each piece, of several colours, twenty mahmudies the conido, of thirty-five inches; five mahmudies being equal to one rial of eight, or Spanish dollar.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII."
Robert Kerr
An old fisherman on being asked how he amused himself when not at his labors replied, 'Why I smoke; and as I have consumed 40 paper cigars a day for the last 50 years, which cost me one rial each will you have the goodness to tell me how many I have smoked, and how much I have expended for tobacco?
"Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce"
E. R. Billings