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India, where it all at lafticenters. If the wakea of Abyfli- - 
nian gold fells at 16 patakas, the Sennaar gold fells at the 
fame place for 22 patakas. The ivory fells at 14 oz. * per 
rotol at Cairo, which is about 25 per cent lighter than the. 
rotol of Mocha. Men-flaves, ata medium, may be about 
a wakea per head at Sennaar. There are women, however, © 
who fell for 13 or 14 wakeas. What their peculiar excel- 
lencies may be, which fo far alters the price, I cannot tell, on- 
ly they are preferred by rich people, both Turks and Moors, 
to the Arab, Circaffian, and po ate women, ani ine 
warm months in fummer, | 
Tue Daveina Arabs, who are great hunters, carry the 
ivory to Abyflinia, where they are not in fear. - But no ca= 
ravan comes now from Sudan + to Sennaar, nor from Abyf- — - 
finia or Cairo. The violence of the Arabs, and the faithlefs~ — ; 
neis of the government of Sennaar, have fhut them up on | i. 
every fide but that of Jidda, whether Wp go once pers by” q 
Suakem, | 
‘Tue wakea of Sennaar, by which they fell gold, civet, 
fcented oils, &c. confifts of 10 drams; 10 of thefe wakeas | 
make a rotol. This wakea at Sennaar is accounted the 
fame as that of Mafuah and Cairo. It is.equal to 7 drams 
57 grains troy weight. | fi 
a Rotol 10 Wakeas. 
1 Wakea 10 Drams. 
* Ounce of gold is here meant. — 
-} Nigritia, or the black countries..on both fides of the Niger. 
