a little coin made of lead, mixed with some scoria of copper, struck in China, but current chiefly at Bantam in the island of Java, and some of the neighbouring islands.

The caxas are of two kinds, great and small. Of the small, 300,000 are equal to fifty-five livres five sols French money; and of the great, 6000 are equal to four shillings and sixpence sterling.