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In India, the Philippines, and elsewhere in southern Asia, 19ᵗʰ century, a unit of count for pieces of cloth, = 20 pieces.
According to Doursther (page 112), at Fort Marlborough in Sumatra it was also used as a unit of count for baskets of tobacco, = 40.
1
Grund (1834), page 116, for Acheeh on the island of Sumatra.
2
The Corge is 20 pieces.
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia. Vol. 23. August, 1837.
London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837.
Page 332.
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