76 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
befides white Haves, male and female, all kinds of brafs, copper, 
and iron manufadures. 
Proceeding to exports, thofe to Europe have been mentioned 
in treating of Alexandria, and thofe to Dar-Fur fhall be enume- 
rated when we come to vifit that kingdom. To Sennaar and 
Fezzan, the fame with Dar-Fur. Hedjas, in Arabia, is wholly 
fupplied with grain from Egypt, but the trade to India and 
Jidda is carried on chiefly by money. To Conftantinople, black 
flaves, chiefly eunuchs, great quantities of coflfee, and fome 
Indian goods, though thefe be for the moft part conveyed 
thither by caravans. 
Egypt was formerly the granary of Rome and of Confl:an- 
tinople. The exports of rice remain very great, with confi- 
derable quantities of wheat from Upper Egypt, in favourable 
years. No oats are feen in Egypt ; and the barley is confumed 
by the horfes. 
To Syria are exported rice, crude leather, flax, and fome- 
tlmes wheat. 
The manufadures at Kahira are not numerous. The fugar 
cane being cultivated with eafe in Egypt, it was manufadtured 
in great quantities at Kahira, fo as to fupply Conftantinople. 
But a capital being requifite, Government made demands on it 
which crufhed the trade. The fugar, though of lefs ftrength 
than that of the Weft Indies, was neverthelefs well refined, of 
a clofe 
