The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita0186recl Year: 1886 J5° C - of breenwich middle of which rises the pyramidal Jebel-Dul, in all of whose ravities gold is found. The amount annually obtained is valued by Schuver at £1,600, on which the Sheikh of Gomasha raises a tax of about a fourth. The soldiers he has collected round him are mostly slave-hunters, who have escaped from the disaster of Sulei- man in the zeriba region. The Gallas who come from the markets of Tumat prefer another medium of exchange to gold-dust, and will only receive the ' salt bricks ' imported from Eastern A
The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita0186recl Year: 1886 J5° C - of breenwich middle of which rises the pyramidal Jebel-Dul, in all of whose ravities gold is found. The amount annually obtained is valued by Schuver at £1,600, on which the Sheikh of Gomasha raises a tax of about a fourth. The soldiers he has collected round him are mostly slave-hunters, who have escaped from the disaster of Sulei- man in the zeriba region. The Gallas who come from the markets of Tumat prefer another medium of exchange to gold-dust, and will only receive the ' salt bricks ' imported from Eastern Abyssinia in exchange for their goods. According to Schuver, the inhabitants of the Tumat Valley receive yearly over 75,000 pounds of salt money. Fadasi. Even after evacuating the country, the Egyptians compelled the riverain tribes of the Tumat Valley to pay them a tax of about £6,000 ; but beyond the district
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