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48 region of Sinde, or China. It contained at this early period a Christian church and community, under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Persia. The port of Adulis was frequented by the ships of Alexandria and Ela, which returned laden with the produce of the frankincense country, and the gold of Sasus. Three days' journey from Adulis, and five from Auxuma, was the town of Koloë, the grand emporium of ivory, and of the wealth of the interior. The trade, however, between the Auxumites and the Romans, at least after the removal of the seat of