An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Shabeeny Abd Salam active 1820
Author:Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820 [Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, General, Nonfiction, New Age, Religion & Spirituality, History, Fiction & Literature
ISBN: 9781613106907
Google: r9rCDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2021-02-24T05:00:00+00:00
Duty on importation in any part of
Marocco, ten per cent. 7 0
Freight, &c. five per cent. 3 6
Land carriage across the Desert on camels
to Timbuctoo 40 0
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s. 120 6
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Footnote 174: (return) See new Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica, article Africa, page 98.
Footnote 175: (return) See the account of Timbuctoo appended to Jackson's account of Marocco, published by Cadell and Davies, London, Chap, 18.
So that if 100 lb. of loaf sugar rendered, at Timbuctoo cost 120s. 6d and sells there for 100 Mexico dollars at 4s. 6d. each, or for 22£. 5s. there will result a profit of 270 per cent.
The profit in fine goods, such as the linens before mentioned, is still more considerable, not being subject to so heavy a charge for carriage. The immense quantity of 176 gold dust and gold bars that would be brought from Timbuctoo, Wangara, Gana, and other countries, in exchange for this merchandise, would be incalculable, and has, perhaps, never yet been contemplated by Europeans!!--In the same work, above quoted, 3d edition, page 289, will be found a list of the various merchandise exportable from Great Britain, which suit the market of the interior of Africa or Sudan: and also a list of the articles which we should receive in return for those goods.
Footnote 176: (return) The Kings, David and Solomon, extracted from Africa to enrich the temple of Jerusalem upwards of 800,000,000£. sterling, a sum sufficient to discharge the national debt; see Commercial Magazine for May 1819, page 6.; which is eight times as much gold as the mines of Brazil have produced since their discovery in 1756. See Commercial Magazine for the same month, page 44.
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