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The Town of Betelfaguajj tho’ higger than Mocca^ is in the 
fame Government with it 5 and the Governour has a Lieutenant 
who refides there. The Mofques are very fine, the Houfes built 
of Bricks, one or two Story high, with a Terrafi. 
The Town is not walled, only there is, a large Caflle within 
a Musket- Shot of it 5 but the greatefi; Curiofity to us was the 
Bazar or Co flee- Market, which takes up two large Courts, with 
covered Galleries in each. Thither the Country People bring 
their Coffee in great Sacks of Matt, of which two ferve to load 
a Camel. The Merchants who have a mind to buy, make ufe 
of BayijanSi which I can compare to nothing but the Brokers 
in Europe, 
In the middle of the Bazar there is a Divan or Sopha railed 
four Foot high, where the Officers of the Cuflom-houfe, and 
lometimes the Governour himfelf, fit. They keep an Account 
of the Weight and Price of all the Coffee that is fold, that no 
Fraud may be committed in paying the King’s Duty. The 
Weighers make ufe of large Scales, but their Weights are only 
Stones in Linen- Bags. 
The Seller pays about the Value of a Penny in every Piece of 
Eight he receives, and thefe Country People mull always be paid 
Ready-Money, they never give any Credit. The Payments are 
made in Mexican Pieces of Eight, or Gold Chequins 5 for as for 
thofe of Peru and Seville, they will hardly take them, ever fince 
the Portugueze, as they fay, gave them fome bad ones of thefe 
kinds. 
The Market holds every Day of the Week, except Friday j 
but the Country People take care to’bring but little Coffee in, if 
they are not fure of a good Price for it. 
In this Place likewife is bought all the Coffee that goes to Tur- 
hey The Turkifi and Egyptian Merchants go thither for that Pur- 
pofe, and load vaft Quantities of it upon Camels, each of which 
carry two Bales, weighing about 270 Pounds a-piece, to a little 
Port of the Red Sea^ about ten Leagues diflance •, from thence 
they tranfport it to Gedda or Zeyden, in fmall Boats, and there it 
is put aboard Turkifi Veffels for Suez, which belongs to the 
Grand Seigyiior. 
From Suez the different Caravans carry it to Egypt, and all the 
other Parts of the Turhijh Empire and it’s from Egypt that all 
the Coffee hitherto con fumed in France, was brought. 
The Coffee that we bought up at Betelfaguay railed the Price 
of it confiderably 5 the very News of our Arrival had begun it : 
and this happening to be likewife the time of carrying it off 
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