Mother-of-pearl Synonyms

The only industry is the manufacture of olive-wood and mother-of-pearl goods for sale to pilgrims and for export.

The important exports are gums and resin, fibre, hides, ivory, ostrich feathers, coffee, ghee, livestock, gold ingots from Abyssinia and mother-of-pearl; the shells being found along the coast from Zaila to beyond Berbera.

On the coast turtle and mother-of-pearl fishing are carried on.

The exports are chiefly coffee, hides, ivory (all from Abyssinia), gum, mother-of-pearl and a little gold; the imports cotton and other European stuffs, cereals, beverages, tobacco and arms and ammunition for the Abyssinians.

It is of wood inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl.