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India demands chiefly ivory, copal, and cloves; slie also 

 buys hippopotamns' tusks, rhinoceros* horns, cocoa-nuts, 

 beeswax, tabkir or snuff, arrow- root, gums, and Zanzibar 

 rafters. It is asserted in a journal of the R. Geographi- 

 cal Society (vol. xii., March, 1856) that Zanzibar Island 

 and Coast have an annual export and import trade of 

 £300,000 with Western, and of £150,000 with Eastern 

 India. Arabia takes the same articles as Hindostan. 

 Madagascar prefers British and foreign manufactured 

 goods and coarse Bombay earthenware, flowered basins, 

 and similar goods. This trade was declining in 1857, 

 and vessels were not allowed to enter any of the ports. 

 The Mrima or African coast requires American domestics, 

 indigo-dyed cloths, cotton chocks, common broad-cloths 

 (especially crimson), Indian and Maskat stuffs*, Surat and 

 otlier caps, china and iron wares, brass chains, and brass 

 and iiou w^ires (Nos. 7 and 8). It also imports Venetian 

 beads, a very delicate article of trade, each district having 

 its own peculiar variety ; subject also to perpetual change, 

 and refusing to take any of the 400 kinds except those 

 in fashion. Finally, a dangerous commerce, and highly 

 disadvantageous to the white race, was carried on in arms 

 and ammunition : coarse gunpowder was supplied in kegs ; 

 and one European house exported, it is said, in a single 

 year 13,000 muskets, thus overdoing the trade. The weapon 

 must have a black butt, and an elephant on the lock, 

 otherwise it is hardl}' saleable ; moreover, the price should 

 not exceed three to four shillings. The old Tower musket 

 was a prime favourite. 



The following is a summary of the exports from the 

 port of Zanzibar in 1859, when the East African Expedition 

 left the coast. 



