1This gum now sells for 10 or 12 mahboubs the cantar in Tripoli.
2In the cantar de gesta of the Cid he plays the part attributed by medieval poets to the greatest kings, to Charlemagne himself.
3Bernardo is the hero of a cantar de gesta (chanson de geste) written to please the anarchical spirit of the nobles.
4In Kanou it can be had for ten reals (Fezzan) the cantar; and in Yakoba, whence it is brought, for three reals.
5The weight the camel carries is from two to three cantars.
6Fifty cantars were collected the first year, and last year some two hundred.
7The charge for transport is accordingly low; a camel loaded with six cantars (600 lbs.)
8I now weighed all my baggage, and found that I had fifty-four cantars (100 lbs.
9These bullocks seemed to be in every respect trained like horses, and some of them carry a burden of four cantars.
10I guaranteed him 100 cantars (10,000 lbs.)
11A good season for a party of a hundred and fifty men should produce about two hundred cantars (20,000 lbs.)
12The greater portion of Ibrahim's immense store of ivory had been given to him by Kamrasi; I had guaranteed him a hundred cantars (10,000 lbs.)
13I guaranteed him 100 cantars (10,000 pounds) if he would push on at all hazards with me to Kamrasi and secure me porters from Shooa.