lks, damask,
brocade, velvets, raw silk, combs of box and ivory, gold-thread,
paper, manufactured sugar, cochineal, and various other
merchandise.

Great Britain sends to the Barbary ports in the Mediterranean, and
to Mogodor on the Atlantic Ocean (which are afterwards conveyed to
Timbuctoo), for distribution at the several markets of Sudan--

_East India Goods, viz._--Gum benjamin, cassia, cinnamon, mace,
nutmegs, cloves, ginger, black pepper, Bengal silk, China silks,
nankeens, blue linens, long cloths, and muslins (mulls).

_West India Produce_.--Pimento, tobacco, coffee, cocoa, and
manufactured sugar.

_Linens_.--Dimities, plattilias, creas, rouans, Britannias,
cambrics, and Irish linens.

_Hardware_.--Iron nails, copper ditto, brass ditto, sword blades,
dagger ditto, guns, gunpowder, knives, &c. &c.

_Cloths_.--Superfine, of plain brilliant colours, not mixtures, and
cassimeres. And various other articles of merchandise.

Immense quantities of salt are also sent to Timbuctoo, which is for
the most part collected at the mines of Tishet and Shangareen, (see
the map of northern and central Africa, in the New Supplement to
the Encyclopaedia Britannica,) through which the caravan would pass
to Timbuctoo.
256
The following are the articles purchased by the Moors and Arab
traders, and are the returns brought back to Barbary from Sudan;
viz.

Gold dust, and trinkets of pure Wangara gold, of various fashions,
of the manufacture of Housa and Jinnie.--_B'Kore Sudan_ (fumigation
of Sudan), a kind of frankincense highly esteemed by the Africans.
Ostrich feathers (the finest in the world). Elephants' Teeth.
_Korkidan_, so called by the Arabs, being the horns of the
rhinoceros: these are a very costly article, and are in high
estimation among the muselmen, for sword-hilts and dagger-handles.
_Guza Sarawie_ (Grains of Paradise). Gum Copal Assafoetida, and a
great variety of drugs for manufacturing uses, and various roots
for dyeing. Ebony. Camwood. Sandal wood. Indigo, equal to that of
Guatimala: to which may be added, the command of the gum trade of
Senegal.

All the foregoing merchandise being first landed at Alexandria,
Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Tetuan, and other Barbary ports in the
Mediterranean, _as well as at Mo