THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, 739 
Tue cloathing of the Agows is all of hides, which they 
foften and manufacture in a method peculiar to themfelves, 
and this they wear in the rainy feafon, when the weather is _ 
cold, for here the rainy feafons are of long duration, and vio- 
lent, which ftill increafes the nearer you approdch the Line, . 
for the reafons I have already afligned. The younger fort 
are chiefly naked, the married:'women carrying their chil- 
dren about with them upon their backs; their.cloathing is 
like a fhirt down to their feet, and girded.-with a belt or 
girdle about their middle; the lower part of it refembles.. 
a large double petticoat, one ply of: which they turn back - 
- over their fhoulders, faftening it. with a broach, or fkewer, 
acrofs their breaft before, and carry their children in it be- 
hind. The women ‘are generally thin, and, like the men, 
below the middle fize.. There is no fuch thing as barren-. 
nefs known among them. They begin to bear children be- . 
fore eleven; they marry generally about that.age, and are 
marriageable two years before::they clofe child-bearing 
before they are thirty, though there are feveral inftances to 
the contrary. . 
Dencui, Sacala, Déngla,and Geefh, are all ‘called by the - 
name of Ancafha, and their tribute is paid in honey. Qua- 
quera and Azena pay honey likewife; Banja,- honey and : 
gold; Metakel, gold; .Zeegam, gold.. There comes from~ 
Dengla a particular kind of fheep, called: Macoot, which 
are faid to be of a breed. brought from the fouthward of 
the Line; but neither fheep,: butter, nor flaves make part 
of their tribute, being referved:for prefenis to the king and: 
great men, 7 
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