162 ANTALOW. 
years ago. They are now living dependent on the chiefs of the dif- 
different provinces. 
" The charming Ozoro Esther is dead, but a daughter of her s is 
living at Gondar. Tecla Mariam, her companion, the beautiful 
daughter of the secretary of that name, Ayto Aylo, AytoConfu, and 
most of the other friends of Mr. Bruce, are also no more ; but the 
families of the two last are living at the capital in considerable 
splendour. 
The manufactures of Abyssinia are but of trifling importance. 
They have the cotton plant in many parts, particularly around 
Adowa ; but they are unacquainted with the method of separating 
the cotton from the seed, and therefore import it from India, in a 
state fit for working up into their dresses. Coarse carpets are made 
in Samen, and at Gondar, from the wool and hair of the sheep and 
goats, which are dyed red, and light blue ; the former from a tree 
called Haddie, the latter from a plant resembling Indigofera. They 
also procure a yellow dye from the Mocmcco, and a black from an 
earth : they have no dark blue. 
" Knives are made at Adowa, spears and razors at Antalow; the 
iron they procure from Sennaar and Walkayt, a district about six 
days journey from Adowa, and also from Berbera, between which 
place and Gondar a considerable trade is carried on; the Abys- 
sinians carrying with them ivory, slaves, and horses, and bring- 
ing back iron, cotton, and India goods : the latter make their way 
to Ras-el-Feel, where the kafila from Sennaar halts and makes its 
purchases. The profit the Abyssinians receive is supposed to be 
one hundred percent, on these articles, which have before been 
loaded to at least an equal amount either at Mocha or Aden. Kafilas 
