CHAP. IV. 
ARTICLES OF TRADE. 
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Zoogoo. A kind of cotton cloth of great strength and thickness. 
Elephants" teeth. Not often brought. 
Leather jars. For containing oil, butter, or grease of any de- 
scription. Honey is also brought in them : they are called Butta. 
Leather bags. Capable of containing about a sack of corn ; 
made of the hide of the black bulFalo. 
Bowls, called Kaffala, highly carved and ornamented, made of 
gourds ; others are of wood ; and wooden spoons. 
Mortars, called Karroo, made of any hard wood, and used for 
pounding corn. 
Leather, and skin ornaments, ivory armlets and finger rings, little 
fancy baskets, and many other trifles, complete the list, and serve 
to supply the deficiency of a camel's load. Blue parrots are brought 
from Noofy, and sell at astonishing prices, some as high as twenty 
dollars. They are carried by the negresses, who soon teach them 
to speak. They are not found east of Noofy. A sweet cake, 
called Aaoud el Kagh (or cough wood) made of spice and honey, is 
another article of commerce. Occasionally they bring a few sheep 
and goats, as presents to the Sultan, or to the families of the 
traders ; lions' skins, and sometimes those of tiger cats. 
To Lgypt the Fezzan Merchants carry 
Slaves, chiefly female. 
Gold, procured from the interior. 
Red pepper, native produce. 
Trona, or soda, which is procured in the Wadey Shiati, and is 
chewed with tobacco. 
Ostrich feathers. 
Tiger cat and lions'' skins. 
Majiggri, or long-tailed sheep of Soudan, which are bought in 
Egypt as high as thirty dollars each. * , 
