APPENDIX IV 
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Gum. 
Ostrich feathers. 
Cattle and sheep (for the Aden market). 
The hides, the trade in which seems capable of great development, go 
to America, whence most of the cotton-goods are imported. 
Considering the capacity of Somaliland as a consumer of our fabrics, 
our countrymen’s lack of enterprise in having allowed American goods to 
gain the ascendancy in this market seems astonishing. Among the future 
possible exports of value are the fibre of the Mg or pointed aloe, certain 
barks for tanning leather, and other natural products. Ivory at present 
mostly goes to ports west of Zeila, and does not figure largely in the 
exports from the British Protectorate. 
There are many kinds of resin and of gum, the best gum being that of 
the adad, a low-spreading thorn-tree, exuding from the branches of which 
can be seen transparent knobs of the gum of a golden hue, the size of a 
lemon, and pleasant to taste. It is much eaten by the natives and by 
gazelles. Gum -pickers take it to their squalid-looking encampments, 
and loading camels with the sacks, carry them to the coast for sale. 
