Letter to the Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, Enclosing a Paper, Geographical, Political, and Commercial, on the Independent Oriental Nations: And Submitting a Plan for Opening, Extending, and Protecting American Commerce in the East
Letter to the Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, Enclosing a Paper, Geographical, Political, and Commercial, on the Independent Oriental Nations: And Submitting a Plan for Opening, Extending, and Protecting American Commerce in the East
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...it with our seal. We request that thou send us all kinds of linen goods and cottons, both white, and brown, and fine stripes, and all kindsof woollen cloths; and ten bedsteads and sixty chairs; all kinds of glass; lamps, large and small, and some for placing on the table; and fine silk handkerchiefs. This is what we ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...it with our seal. We request that thou send us all kinds of linen goods and cottons, both white, and brown, and fine stripes, and all kindsof woollen cloths; and ten bedsteads and sixty chairs; all kinds of glass; lamps, large and small, and some for placing on the table; and fine silk handkerchiefs. This is what we tell thee. Now, salutation and prosperity be with thee forever! "Dated the lOih of the month of Dool Heggeh, 1252, (corresponding to about the 16th of March, 1837.) "From thy friend the Sooltan the sublime, son of the Sooltan Abd-Allah the sublime, Shirazy." seal. D. The coffee tree has flourished from time immemorial in the Kingdom of the Gallas, in Southern Abyssinia; and is thence said to have been transported to Yemen by an enterprising Arab trader in the fourteenth century. It grows wild, and usually attains the height of ten to thirty feet. The valley of Gibbi, in the vicinity of Sakka, the great emporium of the Gallas, is celebrated for its extensive coffee forests, containing trees the trunks of which are said by Dr. Beke, a late traveller in Abyssinia, to be two and a half to three feet in diameter--a size far exceeding any thing of the kind elsewhere. They are the property of the king, and their produce, which is equal to the best Arabian coffee, is sold by the mule load in Sakka, as much as the animal can move under from the market place, for one dollar. It is carried by the trading caravans to Berberah, and thence shipped to Moka and Aden. The annual export of coffee from that Somauli port is estimated by Wellsted at fifteen thousand tons. It is worthy of remark that coffee is little used by the natives in the district of Yemen, where they generally prefer a decoction made from the husks, which has a sweetish taste wit...
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