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The desert wilderness once marked the ancient route of incense and silk, the exotic trade in Black Myrrh and Red Lotus; shagreen, the pearled rayskin of sharks bound upon the hilts of cruel curved daggers; the perfumed attar of roses, bejewelled peacock feathers, hornbill ivory from jungled isles, ambergris and blue beads of lazulum flecked with gold...
