The spice trader wiped his forehead, although the shop wasn't that hot - not yet.
Most contact was with spice traders.
His father, Saleh, had recently returned from Medina, where he had been a spice trader.
He was the son of a German spice trader.
Tio, who comes from a family of spice traders, works with farmers in India and Indonesia to cultivate the best spices money can buy.
I stumbled into a caravan of spice traders bound for Mas'jahan.
The Indian immigrant settlers took up a variety of roles in the settlement, as agricultural labourers, money lenders and spice traders.
The daughter of a silk merchant was marrying the son of a spice trader.
The city eagerly welcomed foreign traders, most notably the Portuguese pepper and spice traders.
Most contact was with spice traders, but the first Arab settlements in the archipelago may date from the fifth century.