APPENDIX y. 
Ixxi 
Miscellaneous Observations respecting the trade oj^ Mocha in May and 
June, 1810. 
The best time for getting a cargo at Mocha is from the beginning of 
March until the end of August, as coffee in those months is dry, loses little 
in weight, and is consequently better adapted for shipping. Spanish dollars 
were at this time 1^ per cent, more valuable than German dollars, a cir- 
cumstance owing to the quantity of specie sent over at this season to 
India ; at other times the German dollars are of greater value, as no other 
will pass in Abyssinia or on the African coast. 
One hundred bales of coffee, at 30olbs. to the bale, will average 14 tons 
English. One camel's load of coffee amounts to 15 frazils. The brokerage 
paid to the Banyans is two and a half per cent. 
The price of the different articles was at this time as follows : 
Best coffee,^ from Uddeen, 118, 120 dollars per bahar. 
Gum arable, cleared and put on board, 25 dollars per bale of 330lbs. 
Gum copal^ (not cleared) 4f dollars per frazil. 
Liban-mete, (frankincense from Mete) to 4 dollars per frazil. 
Gum mastich, dollars per frazil. 
Gum myrrh, 3:|- to 4 dollars per frazil. 
Buliock skins, ~ a dollar each. 
Black headed sheep skins from Berbera, Yemen sheep, goat, and kid 
skins dried, 6d. each. 
Tanned skins, 1 shilling each. 
Kia rope 15 dollars for five frazils. 
Besides these articles, indigo, barilla, salt-petre, and senna leaves, are to 
be bought at a reasonable rate. 
* Best colFee comes from Uddeen, Gebil Saruk, Uthma, Massar, Annus, and Hemmaj 
th^ second quality from Badden and Huaoss. 
