TRADE IN DARFOUR. 275 cloth are yearly sent to Kordofan. The ironwork of the Fors is good ; they make excellent iron chains, and there is a little industry in making gold and silver bracelets and anklets, which are richly chased.

Turning is understood, and ivory and rhinoceros horns are thus made into cups and bracelets.

Cups made of rhinoceros horn are supposed to have the peculiar virtue of detecting poison in coffee or sherbet. Often, when drinking for the first time in a strange house, one of these cups is offered, to assure the visitor that no foul play is contemplated. Sugul Bey gave me several of them.

They are considered most valuable presents, and a mark of lasting friendship and esteem.

Tanning is carried on to a small extent ; and slippers, sandals, and sword-sheaths are made in a superior manner.

The currency in Darfour is very curious. Forty small pieces of damoor cloth, about a foot long and four inches broad = one white cloth, two of which = one dollar, or 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d., a small blue cloth being used to represent half a dollar. The standard white cloth is called a Tob ; the blue cloth, Faradieh, and the smallest pieces of cloth, Eubieh. An ox costs from three to six dollars ; a sheep, three-quarters of a dollar ; a goat, half a dollar. A good riding-camel can be bought for fifty to seventy dollars ; and a pack-camel for twenty-five or thirty dollars. A horse costs fifty or sixty, though some horses and T 2