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TRADE OF AGHADEZ. 
pass on this route, and commerce with Timbuctoo 
seems altogether to have ceased. The trade that 
exists is entirely in provisions, principally in ghaseb, 
or millet, which is imported from Damerghou. 
The system adopted is entirely one of barter — the 
Aghadez money consisting of turkedi,* or dark- 
coloured cotton for female clothing made in Soudan, 
Egyptian leather for sandals, English calico, white 
shawls, cloves, pepper, pearls, &c. All these objects 
are imported, the only manufactures of Aghadez 
being leather-work (sandals and saddles) and co- 
loured mats. I do not know what materials are 
used in tanning. The Fezzanee gets assistance, ac- 
cording to my fighi, from four trees — the gram, 
the ethel, the pomegranate, and the essalan. The 
first and last are a species of acacia. Women and 
men work in their houses at the production of these 
articles, and merchants go and purchase a domicile, 
there being now no shops. There are three market- 
places or bazaars, where prices are very low. 
The Sultan of Aghadez, the great Koku Abd-el- 
Kader, does not receive any direct contribution 
towards his revenues, from the people of Aghadez, 
but levies a kind of octroi of ten mithkals on every 
camel-load of goods that enters the town, provisions 
being exempt. He has property of his own, how- 
ever ; receives presents at his installation ; and can 
* As an illustration of the previous note, I will observe that this 
word is spelt in several different ways in the MS., and I do not 
know which is the correct one. — Ed. 
