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-the regions of Africa ^•isited by the writer of this book, or described by 

 other observers, a neglect of decency in the male has only been recorded 

 among the Efik people of Old Calabar. The nudity of women is another 



417. MADI WOMAN POUNDING CORN IN A WOODEN MOKTAB 



question. In parts of West Africa between the Niger and the Gaboon 

 (especially on the Cameroons Kiver, at Old Calabar, and in the Niger 

 Delta) it is — or was — customary for young women to go about completely 

 nude before they are married. In (Swaziland, until quite recently, 



