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the credit of the gangam, who throws the whole blame on 
the kissey. 
The frequency of the crime of putting poison in victuals, 
has established the custom of the master invariably making 
the person, who presents him with meat or drink, taste it 
first; and in offering either to a visitor, the host performs 
this ceremony himself; this the natives, who speak English, 
call «* taking off the fetiche.” 
Both sexes paint themselves with red ochre; and, before 
a bride is conveyed to her husband, she is smeared with this 
substance from head to foot. The men also make marks on 
their foreheads and arms with both red and white clays ; but 
the only answer we could get to our enquiries respecting 
these practices was, that they were done by order of 
the gangam kissey. 
Besides a prevalent cutaneous disorder or itch, seve- 
ral cases of elephantiasis were observed, and two patients 
with gonorrhoea applied to our doctor; this, however, they 
told us was a present from the Portuguese. 
The only game we have seen them play at was a kind of 
drafts named looela, the implements of which are a flat stone 
18 inches square with 16 cavities grooved in it, and a small 
stone in each cavity, as in the annexed figure. 
