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Silent Trade is a method by which people with no common language could barter goods. Group A would leave trade goods in a prominent position and signal, by gong, fire, or drum for example, that they had done so. Group B would then arrive at the spot, examine the goods and deposit their trade goods that they wanted to exchange. The practice was certainly well established between tribes in Africa trading with India in the 15th Century since it was recorded by Prince Henry 'the Navigator' of Portugal when he occupied Ceuta in 1415.
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