360 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
nine feet three inches, and girt across the shoulders three 
feet seven inches. 
Foon, Lopcinc, UTENSILS AND CLoruinc.—The sta- 
ple articles of subsistence, at least inthe dry season, appear 
to be manioc, ground-nuts, and palm wine ; to which may 
probably be added Indian corn and yams, the latter of 
which are stated to be remarkably fine ; and of Indian corn 
they have regularly two crops in the year. Animal food is 
not in general use, though sold in the daily market held at 
Embomma, which is at a village distinct from the banza, 
or residence of the Chenoo, and at which from a hundred 
to three hundred persons are said to assemble; in this 
market, the party observed a supply of goats, fowls, eggs, 
besides vegetables, fish, and salt. It must be recollected, 
however, that this place is the grand mart for conducting 
the slave trade of the Zaire, and these supplies may be 
chiefly intended for the crews of the European ships. 
The negroes of Congo are exceedingly foul feeders, 
and particularly filthy in their preparation and their eating 
of animal food; they broil fowls with the feathers on, and 
pieces of goat without being at the trouble of removing the 
skin, or even the hair; and they devour them when scarcely 
warmed, tearing the flesh in pieces with their teeth in the 
most disgusting manner. Mr. Fitzmaurice relates that one 
day, as their butcher had taken off the skin of a sheep, the 
Mandingo slave purchased by Captain Tuckey, had slily 
conveyed away the skin, which, with the wool (or rather 
the hair) he had thrown over a smokey fire, and when 
