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at a cuba for 10 paras. It is brought from near Hodeida, 

 though it is fometimes found at Konfodah and Loheia, 

 There are a few alib at Dahalac, but not efteemed : thefc 

 pafs for money among the Djawi and other weltern Galla. 



The cuba is a wooden meafure, containing, very exacflly, 

 62 cubic inches of rain water. The drachm is called Caila; 

 there is 10 drachms in their wakea. 



Gold, 16 patakas /<?r wakea. 



Civet, 1 1 pataka the wakea. 



Elephants teeth, 18 patakas for 35 rotol. 



Wax, 4 patakas the faranzala. 



Myrrh, 3 patakas per ditto. 



Coifee, 1 pataka the 6 rotol. 



Honey, \ of a pataka the cuba, 



The Banians were once the principal merchants of Ma- 

 fuah ; but the number is now reduced to iix. They are 

 filver-fmiths, that make ear-rings and other ornament? for 

 the women in the continent, and are afTayers of gold ; they 

 make, however, but a poor livelihood. 



As there is no water in Mafuah, the number of ani- 

 mals belonging to it can be but lmall. The fea fowl have 

 n -thing Angular in them, and are the grey and the white 

 gull, and the fmall bird, called the fea-lark, or pickerel, 

 The fky-lark is here, but is mute the whole year, till the 

 firlt rains fall in November; he then mounts very high, and 

 fings in the very heat of the day. I law him in the Teha- 

 ma, but he did not fing there; probably for the reafon 

 given above, ao theie was no rain, . 



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