You have others that they would prize greatly." "What are our products they would most value ?" the king asked.
"First, and most of all, gold," Roger said.

"It is with us the scarcest and most valuable of metals, and all things are valued by it.

As with you bags of cocoa are your standard of value, so with them are pieces of gold.

A wide estate is worth so much gold; a ship, or a horse, or a suit of armor, so many pieces of gold; and so through everything.

All your delicate embroidery work would be valuable in their eyes, as being strange and different to anything we possess; while on their side they could provide you with silks, and satins, and velvets, and cloths, and other fabrics new to you; to say nothing of arms and iron work vastly superior to any you possess." One of the old counselors whispered something in the king's ear, and the latter said to the queen: "Maclutha, I would talk these matters over with my counselors.