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ports in 1859 was $516,451, of which $400,000 were bul- 

 lion and $41,000 Venetian beads. Imports from Great 

 Britain pass through India. Hamburg ships are laden 

 with commissioned articles, mostly English, — glass ware 

 and mirrors, English lead, sail-cloth in small pieces, broad- 

 cloths, and similar articles. From India come English 

 manufactured goods, cotton piece-goods, long-cloths, in- 

 ferior broad-cloths, beads, brass and iron wires, coarse cut- 

 lery (English and foreign), bar and round iron, hardware, 

 English muskets, tin, pig-lead, copper, spelter, china and 

 earthenware ; cereals in general, but especially rice, ghi, 

 8weet-oil (cocoa), bitter-oil (sesamum), spices and frank- 

 incense, sugar and sugar-candy. Maskat supplies prin- 

 cipally ornamental cloths (lungi, &c.), salt, sharks'-flesh, 

 and fish-oil. The African Mrima contributes chiefly 

 slaves, ivory, and copal, coffee and tobacco, cocoas and 

 cloves ; cereals, especially Jowari or holcus ; ghi, cowries, 

 and other shells, Zanzibar rafters and firewood, rhinoceros' 

 horns and hippotamus' teeth. Small pigs of excellent cop- 

 per, and malachite of a fine quality, have been brought 

 from the country of the Cazembe, and the analogy of 

 Angola would lead us to expect rich mines in the interior. 

 Madagascar contributes only tortoise-shell and a little 

 rice, the latter husked or parboiled, to prevent it being 

 used as seed by the importers. This custom is connected 

 with some superstition : a few years ago the inhabitants 

 of Socotra sold some she-goats to a ship's crew, and com- 

 plained that they were not visited by rain for several 

 seasons. In 1863, wishing to introduce cocoa into Fer- 

 nando Po, I bought a sack of seed from Prince Island, 

 and found that all had been scalded. The trade with 

 India and Arabia is carried on by ' Daus ' and Batelas, of 



