Show METHODS OF TRADE IN ABYSSINIA co commerce comerce merce carried on in a nery elj iram etive lk Bl laer noner the market for the gold producing region of Abs abyssinia sinia Is at nedjo gold va a sheia bring the metal in dust and nuggets from all corners of the country pressed into large quills closed with a morsel of wood the holders aie so EO transpire transparent nt that the precious powder ponder Is as easily visible as though it eie a tube of glass the rhe washer sells the produce to a broker who works it into circles of pure gold of about the thic thickness kLess of a bedlivy beavy fingel ring these circles are not closed so that the buyer may twist them before weighing eig bing thus thug assuring himself upon finding them malleable that no copper has been mixed velh aith the pure metal the brokers sit bent ben t over in long flits with their small scales in their hands A kind of cotton goods manufactured lit in the united states which Is called I 1 and bears the mark of a camel serves in countey districts of Abs abyssinia sinla as money being used for clothing tents and many other purposes A piece of this material thirty maids long the average dilce pi ice of la Is 2 generally genoia genei ally lly sold to latall dealers in lots of twenty pieces Is a token by which abyssinian coffee Is purchased in the regions of pio production the change in the price of american rot pot tons has obliged the wholesale merchants to increase in abyssinia as elsewhere the price of a bale of this material serving as money immediately the pi ire ice of coffee lose at the five centers of production but when the native farmers reached harrar the commercial center of the country expecting to sell their coffees at the hillier price imposed by the increased value of american cottons they found thern themselves selves fice to face with mith the falling prices which beset all the coffee m marketa illets in the world horld this caused much |