£56 INTERCOUFiSE WITH AFRICA.

The following are the articles purchased by the Moors and Arab traders, and are the returns brought back to Barbary from Sudan ; viz. Gold dust, and trinkets of pure Wangara gold, of various fashions, of the manufacture of Housa and Jinnie. — B'Kore Sudan (fumigation of Sudan), a kind of frankincense highly esteemed by the Africans. Ostrich feathers (the finest in the world). Elephants' Teeth. Korkidan, so called by the Arabs, being the horns of the rhinoceros : these are a very costly article, and are in high estimation among the muselmen, for sword-hilts and dagger-handles. Guza Sarawie (Grains of Paradise). Gum Copal Assafoetida, and a great variety of drugs for maAufacturing uses, and various roots for dyeing. Ebony. Camwood. Sandal wood. Indigo, equal to that of Guatimala : to which may be added, the command of the gum trade of Senegal.

All the foregoing merchandise being first landed at Alexandria, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Tetuan, and other Barbary ports in the Mediterranean, as well as at Mogodor 07i the western coast of Africa, are afterwards sold to the Muhamedan merchants, who sell them with a very good profit to other Moors. These goods frequently go through three, four, and ve hands, before they reach the consumer in Sudan, subject to a profit gained by each holder of from twenty to thirty per cent. ; the last purchaser, who conveys them through the Desert, however, 11