Crossword-Solution: MILREIS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

When an independent hunter obtains one, a very high price (thirty to forty milreis[1]) is asked, these monkeys being in great demand for presents to persons of influence down the river.

Here are careful watching, weeks of anxiety, and, no doubt, a modicum of affection (for I _have_ heard people say they loved flowers), bartered away for one _milreis_." "Apropos of money,--I thought I was to have a view of the treasures of Aladdin, locked up in the vaults below." "Of a surety you shall." Reed excused himself, and in a short time reappeared, bearing a large iron casket.

Another wanted police assistance; a third wished to know if he could get fresh provisions--ten milreis' ($5) worth (he was a German)--naming a dozen or more articles that he wished for, "and _the balance in onions_!" Altogether, the young fellows on the guard-ship were having, one might say, a signal practice.

Ten thousand pounds was Dom Corria's financial estimate of the services rendered by Philip, and Iris was absolutely dumfounded by the total in milreis.

Paul and Bob both laughed, and harder yet as the bright little animal shot a paw into Paul's pocket and adroitly drew out a Brazilian gold coin called a milreis, worth about fifty-four cents in American money.