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under the left scapula. The Ibbodo mark is 

 six or seven curved lines from the external 

 angle of the eye over the cheek to the lower 

 lip. The Houssa national mark approaches the 

 Bornou mark, being lines carried from the cheek- 

 bone to the chin, sometimes eight or nine in 

 number. The sons or daughters of the king are 

 seldom marked in the face ; they are marked in 

 their arms generally. Few of the Felatahs are 

 marked ; and they look upon the marked tribes 

 with great disdain, and consider it the infallible 

 mark of a slave. Some of the women are quite 

 mutilated with marks on their arms and breasts, 

 having the flesh raised nearly an inch, presenting 

 stripes and figures of animals. This method 

 of tatooing is common among the women in the 

 Eboe, Ebaw, Amar, Moya, and Nufie countries, 

 up to above Egga. 



Early on the morning of the 31st, I despatched 

 Mr. Brown ashore, with assistants and two Kroo- 

 men, to count the cowries. At 5 p. m. the mar- 

 ket was closed, and I found that 21,160 cowries 

 were taken by our party, for the sale of pewter 

 basins, crockery ware, paper, &c. The last of 

 our stock of antimony was sold to-day : it is 

 an article which meets with a ready sale, and 



