Red Woollen Caps, Check Linens, Light coarse Cloth, Baize, Barakans, or Alhaiks, Small Turkey Carpets, Plain Mesurata Carpets, Silk, wrought and unwrought, Tissues and Brocades, Sabre Blades, Dutch Knives, Scissars, Coral, Beads, Small Looking-Glasses, Tickera—a preparation of pounded dates, and the meal of Indian corn, which is manufactured in Fezzan: Gooroo Nuts—which are brought from the Negro Countries on the South of the Niger. The articles received in _return_, are— Gold Dust:—of which an English ounce (or 480 grains) appears to be valued at 3l. 8s. 3d. though in Fezzan it seems to be worth no more than 3l. The Fezzanners, in all probability, make themselves amends by the price which they charge upon their goods. Slaves—a male slave is worth in Cashna, from 3l. 10s. to 5l.—a female slave is worth two-thirds of the amount, or from 2l. 6s. 8d. to 3l. 6s. 8d. Cotton Cloths—of various colours, principally blue and white, of which in the Empire of Cashna, and in the Negro States to the South of the Niger, great quantities are made: Goat Skins—dyed red or yellow, Ox and Buffalo Hides—for tents, Senna from Agadez—a province of the Cashna Empire; the Agadez senna is worth at Tripoli, from fourteen to fifteen mahaboobs (4l. 4s. to 4l. 10s. sterling) per hundred weight; that which the Fezzanners obtain at Tibesti is only worth per hundred weight, from nine to ten mahaboobs, or from 2l. 14s. to 3l. sterling. Civet. * * * * * To such of the various nations inhabiting _the Country on the South of the Niger_ as they are accustomed to visit, the Merchants of Fezzan convey the following articles: Sabre Blades, Dutch Knives, Carpets, Coral, Beads, Looking-Glasses, Brass, Imperial Dollars, Civet. In _return_ the Merchants receive— Gold Dust, Slaves, Cotton Cloths—of various colours. Goat Skins—red and yellow. Ox and Buffalo Hides, Gooroo Nuts—for sale in Cashna, Bornou, and Fezzan, where they are purchased at the rate of 12s. for one hundred pods: Cowries—for sale in Cashna. Ivory, though very common in the country to the South of the Niger, is not considered by the Merchants of Fezzan, as an article of profitable transport, the demand for it on the Coast being such as induces them to sell to the Negros who traffic there, the teeth which in the course of their journey, they often find in the woods.[34] Such are the principal branches of the extensive commerce of the Merchants of Fezzan; from a view of which it appears, that, vast as their concerns are, they have little communication with any of the States that are situated to the West of the Empire of Cashna; a circumstance which the Shereef ascribes to the want of a proper conveyance for their goods; for the country on the West of Cashna furnishes but few camels, and even horses and mules are singularly scarce and dear. ~CHAPTER X.~