Crossword-Solution: AMOLES 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

These wretched victims are then taken through the Amhara province of Giddem to the Wollo and Argobba frontiers, some five days' journey to the north, and resold at a profit of fifty per cent,--the sums realised being there invested in _amoles_, or blocks of black salt, the size of a mower's whetstone.

Two hundred pieces of salt were the price fixed upon the first purchase; and as this _small change_ was not procurable within thirty miles, and moreover would have formed the load of two jackasses, ten Austrian convention dollars were forwarded in lieu thereof, each valued at ten amoles, and exhibiting all the requisite jewels in the star and coronet of Maria Theresa.

Large quantities of excellent coffee are cultivated in Manchettee and Efrata, and with the salt pieces or "amoles," which it has been seen are imported from Tigre by the Wollo and Worra Kaloo, are brought to Shoa by the Moslem merchants.

The raw cotton, which is as cheap as it is excellent and abundant, is, by him who would be clad, handed over with a number of _amoles_ proportioned to the size of the cloth required.

Thence I was taken to the market-place which is beyond Sequala, on the plain of the Hawash, and sold for seventy pieces of salt to the Soddo Galla, and immediately afterwards to Roque, the great slave-mart in the Yerrur district, where I was sold for one hundred _amoles_" being one pound sterling.