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and as soon as he makes a little profit, be adds a 
young wife to his elder companion in life : yet a man 
has rarely more than two wives at a time. Drinking 
fermented liquor cannot be strictly reckoned a sin in 
a place where a great many of the inhabitants are pa- 
gans ; but a drunken person, nevertheless, is scarcely 
ever seen: those who are not Mohammedans only 
indulge in their "giya," made of sorghum, just 
enough to make them merry and enjoy life with more 
]ight-heartedness. There was at that time a renegade 
Jew in the place, called Musa, who made spirits of 
dates and tamarinds for his own use. Their dress is 
very simple, consisting, for the man, of a wide shirt 
and trowsers, mostly of a dark colour, while the head 
is generally covered with a light cap of cotton cloth, 
which is negligently worn, in all sorts of fashions. 
Others wear a rather closely fitting cap of green 
cloth, called baki-n-zaki. Only the wealthier amongst 
them can afford the a zenne " or shawl, thrown over 
the shoulder like the plaid of the Highlanders. On 
their feet the richer class wear very neat sandals, 
such as we shall describe among the manufactures of 
Kano. 
As for the women, their dress consists almost en- 
tirely of a large cotton cloth, also of dark colour- 
"the turkedi," fastened under or above the breast 
the only ornament of the latter in general consisting 
of some strings of glass beads worn round the neck. 
The women are tolerably handsome, and have plea- 
sant features; but they are worn out by excessive 
