At Aden the Farasilah is 27 lbs., at Zayla 20 lbs., and at Berberah 35 lbs. See Chap. iii. El Makrizi, describing the kingdom of Zayla, uses the Harari not the Arabic term; he remarks that it is unknown to Egypt and Syria, and compares its leaf to that of the orange. In conversational Arabic "we" is used without affectation for "I." The Shaykh himself gave me this information.
The principal gum is the Adad, or Acacia Arabica: foreign merchants purchase it for about half a dollar per Farasilah of twenty pounds: cow's and sheep's butter may fetch a dollar's worth of cloth for the measure of thirty-two pounds.
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