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Mocrotu (var. of frankincense). MosyLLum. (Imports)

The things already mentioned; also

Silver plate

Iron, very little

Glass.

(Exports)

Cinnamon, in great quantity

Fragrant gums and spices

Tortoise-shell

Mocrotu incense

Frankincense (the far-side)

Ivory

Myrrh.

ELEPHANT RIVER. (Exports) Frankincense (the best far-side) Market oF Spices (Cape Guarda- fui). (Imports) The things already mentioned. (Exports)

Cinnamon (varieties, gizir, asypha, arebo, magla, moto)

Frankincense.

OPONE. (Imports) The things already mentioned. (Exports)

Cinnamon(the better sort, aredo and moto, in great quantity )

Slaves of the better sort, for Egypt, in increasing num- bers

Tortoise-shell, good quality, in great quantity

(Goods brought in Indian ships to this and the preceding far- side ports) !

Wheat

Rice

Clarified butter

Sesame oil

Cotton cloth (the monach?, also sagmatogen?)

Girdles Honey from the reed called Sac Aart,

East Africa. Ruapta, Menuraias, &c. (Imports, chiefly in Arabian ships) Lances made at Muza Hatchets, daggers and awls Glass, various kinds Wine, a little Wheat, for free distribution to the savages. (Exports) Ivory (in great quantity, but inferior to that of Adulis) Rhinoceros-horn Tortoise-shell (the best after that from India) Palm-oil, a little.

Arabia.

Muza. (Imports)

Purple cloths, fine and coarse

Clothing in Arabian styles, with sleeves; (plain, ordinary, embroidered, or interwo- ven with gold)

Saffron

Sweet-rush

Muslins

Cloaks

Blankets, plain and in the local fashion

Sashes of different colors

Fragrant ointments

Wine and wheat (not much, the country producing both)

Presents to the King and Chief: horses, sumpter - mules, vessels of gold and polished silver, finely woven cloth- ing, copper vessels.

(Exports, the products of the

country ) Myrrh, selected Myrrh, the Gebanite-Minzan stacte Alabaster All the things already men- tioned from Avalites and the far-side coast.