CAPTAIN TL'CKEY'S NARRATIVE. G:J 



a little apron of the skin of some animal, which is a mark 

 of gentility, and as sucli is not permitted tt) 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 olf ; 

 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 brisdes of the 

 elephant's tail, called by them morfil, and which seemed 

 to be multiplied in proportion to the puppyism of the 

 wearer, the graver or middle aged men having but one 

 or two, while some of the voimo- ones had so many, that 

 they could with dithculty 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- 



