The exports are minerals, esparto, oil, grain, grapes and farm produce generally.
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Besides lead, the exports include grapes, sugar and esparto.
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But the esparto has a rival so far as its use in making paper is concerned.
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The donkey basket is made of esparto grass.
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When the plant turns brown and has become dry to the root, the esparto picker gets busy.
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Between the bite of a rattler and that of an esparto viper there is little to choose.
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But usually the shellfish are spread out on mats made from the esparto grass that covers the beaches.
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Almost all the animal life of the Sahara is deadly, and the esparto grass picker is constantly facing danger.
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The flora of the high plateaus consists chiefly of grasses, notably various kinds of alfa or esparto, and aromatic herbs.
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Bread-stuffs and Numidian wines were bartered for the flocks of the Aures, leather, dates, and the esparto basket-work of the regions of Sahara.
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It is the chief outlet for the Spanish trade in esparto grass, and for the iron ore and other mineral products of the neighbourhood.
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There were traces of various crafts in the deposit of mud upon the steps-brass-filings ,brokenbuttons, scraps of gauze, and esparto grass lay scattered about.
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About 1400 ships, of nearly 1,000,000 tons, enter the port every year, bringing fuel and timber, and taking cargoes of iron, lead, esparto and fruit.
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Esparto grass, rice, olives, the sugar-cane, and tropical fruits and vegetables are largely produced.
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Esparto, a Spanish grass grown in South Africa, has entered largely into the making of print-paper in England.