Mother-of-pearl synonyms

Panama has had an important trade: its imports, about twice as valuable as its exports, include cotton goods, haberdashery, coal, flour, silk goods and rice; the most valuable exports are gold, india-rubber, mother of pearl and cocobolo wood.

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.