User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-1669318-20100908194035/@comment-88.217.30.247-20100910210734

6: Beauclair Fethringsol Cosfortingham said he was on a merchant vessel before being taken captive aboard the Goreleech.

Well, it wouldn't surprise me, if they was trading in the Redwall... though it's probably only happening between neighbouring communities. Probably Beau's vessel came from a harbour village, trading goods with another.

Other than D2r says, trade does not always need an global economic system or something.

In the good old times, people traded stuff they had too much of for goods which they were in need of. It worked, as long both parties profited. No economic system.

If it were wrong, then I must have failed to spot Redwall's or Salamandastron's stock market section...