The customs and duties paid by each ship, great or small, amount in the whole to 70 or 80 slaves. The king [[Unsupported titles/`lsqb`sc.#English|[sc.]] of Ardrah] has the first choice of goods, whether in the payment of duties, or in exchange for slaves; the hereditary prince the second, the merchant prince the third, the Marbut the fourth, and afterwards the great officers of the court.

...you’re establishing a plutocracy. You’re making us a land of traders and merchant princes. Then what of the future?

Merchant prince

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