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or cousin. On every demise a fresh investiture takes place 
by the viceroy’s sending a cap (here the mark of all dignity) 
to the appointed successor ; but though it is necessary that 
the succession should be continued in the family, the vice- 
roy is not restricted to nearness of kin or primogeniture, 
but as favour, corruption or intrigue operates strongest, the 
investiture is given. ‘The Chenoo, in his turn, appoints seve- 
ral inferior officers by sending them caps, particularly the 
Mafook, or custom master, who interferes in all trading 
transactions. ‘The Mombella, Macaya and Mambom, are 
officers whose respective powers I have not yet been able to 
ascertain with any certainty. Slavery is here of two kinds, 
which may be denominated household or domestic, and 
trading. When a young man is of age to begin the world, 
his father or guardian gives him the means of purchasing a 
number of slaves of each sex, in proportion to his quality, 
from whom he breeds his domestic slaves, and these (though 
it does not appear that he is bound by any particular law) 
he never sells or transfers, unless in cases of misbehaviour, 
when he holdsa palaver, atwhich they are tried and sentenced. 
These domestic slaves are, however, sometimes pawned for 
debt, but are always redeemed as soon as possible. ‘The 
only restraint on the conduct of the owners, towards their 
domestic slaves, seems to be the fear of their desertion; 
