Elephants’ teeth.—­Ivory pays an export duty of ten per cent.  During late years, both ivory and ostrich feathers have lost much of their value as articles of commerce.

Gums.—­Gum-arabic pays two dollars per quintal export duty, and gum sudanic an ad valorem duty of ten per cent.  But now-a-days only the very best gum will sell in English markets; the inferior qualities, as of all other Barbary produce, are shipped to Marseilles.  One looks with extreme interest at the beautiful pellucid drops of Sudanic gum, knowing that the Arabs bring some of it from the neighbourhood of Timbuctoo.

Almonds.—­Both the sweet and the bitter, in the shell, or the oil of almonds, pay three dollars per quintal.  Ship-loads at once are exported from Mogador direct for Soudan.

Red woollen sashes are exported at five dollars per dozen.  The Spaniards take a great quantity.  Tanned skins, especially the red, or Morocco, are exported at ten per cent, ad valorem.  Slippers pay a dollar the hundred.  The haik or barracan is exported in great numbers to the Levant by the pilgrims.  The vessels, also, that carry pilgrims from Morocco, return laden with these and other native manufactures.  Barbary dried peas are exported principally to Spain, paying a dollar the quintal.  Fez flour pays one dollar and a half per fanega; dates pay five dollars the quintal; fowls and eggs, the former two dollars per dozen, the latter two dollars per thousand; oranges and lemons pay a dollar the thousand.

Gold is brought from Soudan over the Desert, and is sometimes exported.  I have no account of it, and never heard it mentioned in Morocco as an article of any importance.

Olive-oil is exported from the north, but not in great quantities.  The amount exported in a recent year was about the value of L6,000 sterling.  The olive is not so much cultivated in Morocco as in Tunis and Tripoli.

Besides the articles above mentioned, antimony, euphorbium, horns, hemp, linseed, rice, maize, and dra, orchella weed, orris-root, pomegranate peel, sarsaparilla, snuff, sponges, walnuts, garbanyos, gasoul, and mineral soap, gingelane, and commin seeds, &c., are exported in various quantities. [22]

It was reported in the mercantile circles, that representations would be made to the Emperor to place the trade of the country upon a regular, and more stable footing.  All nations, indeed, would benefit by a change which could not but be for the better.  But I question whether his Imperial Highness will give up his old and darling system of being the sovereign-merchant of the Empire.  It is not the interest of Great Britain to annoy him, for we have always to look at Gibraltar.  But it would be desirable if Christian merchants could be found to undertake the duty, to have all the vice-consuls of the coast Christians, in preference to Jews.  By having Jewish consuls, we place ourselves in a false position with the Emperor, who is obliged to submit to the prejudices of his