CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 63° 
a little apron of the skin of some animal, which is a mark 
of gentility, and as such is not permitted to be worn by 
menial attendants. A striped worsted cap, or else one of 
their own manufacture and of very curious workmanship, 
on the head, completed the useful part of their dress. ‘Their 
ornaments consisted of rings of iron and copper on the 
ancles and wrists, welded on so as not to be taken off; 
and many of the copper ones having raised figures tolerably 
executed. This metal we understood was abundant in 
their country. Besides necklaces of beads, the general 
neck ornament was circles or rings of the bristles of the 
elephant’s tail, called by them morfil, and which seemed 
to be multiplied im proportion to the puppyism of the 
wearer, the graver or middle aged men having but one 
or two, while some of the young ones had so many, that 
they could with difficulty move the head, and reminded 
us of our Bond-street bloods with their chins hid in an 
enormous cravat. 
All were loaded with fetiches of the most heterogeneous 
kinds; bits of shells, horns, stones, wood, rags, &c. &c.; 
but the most prized seemed to be a monkey’s bone, to 
which they paid the same worship that a good catholic 
would do to the os sacrum of his patron saint. The master 
fetiche of the Mafook was a piece of most indecent sculp- 
