300 THE FOREST AND THE FIELD. 



We visited the market, which appeared but 

 poorly stocked, the chief native produce being the 

 cola-nut, rice, maize, millet, yams, cassada, pump- 

 kins, sweet potatoes, papaw, melons, cocoa-nuts, 

 oranges, and bananas. The fowls were perfect 

 abortions, after the splendid Spanish breed of 

 Teneriffe. 



The principal tribes on the Gambia are the 

 Jalofs, the Fulahs, and the Man dingoes, all pro- 

 fessing to be Mahomedans, but still retaining 

 many of the characteristics of paganism, believ- 

 ing in fetish and gri-gris. The men wear a cotton 

 cap or turban, a white or blue ** jumper" or 

 blouse, short wide trousers and sandals, with an 

 ill-cut kind of haic, which is imported from the 

 north. Children go naked until about five years 

 old, when the girls have a " tuntungee," like an 

 Indian "langoutee," a narrow strip of long cloth, 

 about four inches broad, which passes between the 

 thighs, over a string fastened round the waist, the 

 ends hanging down before and behind. Married 

 women wear a kind of skirt of blue baft, and 

 speak of their husband " as the man who gave 



