He stretched and yawned in surprised wonder that traders lived in such luxury.
"It is a code of conduct that any honest trader can live by."
The city market was located between these two divisions; the artisans and traders lived close to the market.
Some French traders may have lived at the sites.
Legend has it that a hundred thousand traders lived in the city at its heyday.
He also notes that Chinese traders lived there, "side by side with the natives".
He said it's where the foreign traders and diplomats live.
Many knew a lot about one another's families in part because traders live by the telephone.
The eventual move to an electronic screen system served by satellite would mean traders could live anywhere and 'they will locate where it best suits them'.
Here lived the traders and the visitors in large hotels whose signs shone harshly in the sun.