People Trafficked not in oil, but in stocks and in leases, the values of which were entirely chimerical.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
He insinuated that the Abouna was only a merchant at heart; that instead of selling the tribute he received in kind to the people of the country, as was formerly the custom, he sent it by caravans to Massowah, Trafficked with the Turks, and hoarded all his money in Egypt.
"A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People"
Henry Blanc
And there were the Fuggers at Augsburg who Trafficked with emperors: houses with those step-ladder gables, and people with puffed elbows and slashed sleeves and feathers of all colours in those wide hats.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller