Chap. XXV. THE GUINEA-FOWL SHIRT. 129 
nea-fowl shirt" (tekatkat tailelt), as shown in the 
accompanying woodcut, is very becoming, and was 
my ordinary dress from the moment I was rich enough 
to purchase it, as a good one fetches as much as 
from eighteen to twenty thousand, kurdi ; then the 
tob-harir, with stripes of speckled cast like the tailelt, 
but intermixed with red ; the jellaba, red and white, 
with embroidery of green silk, and several others. 
Specimens of all these I have brought home and 
delivered to the Foreign Office.* 
The chief articles of native industry, besides cloth, 
* Among these specimens is also an undyed and a dyed speci- 
men of the e< riga tsamia," which seems to deserve a good deal of 
interest, as it consists half of home-made silk, obtained from a 
peculiar kind of silkworm, which lives on the tamarind-tree. I 
also sent home from Kukawa, at a former period, a piece of native 
cloth of the Kwana, a tribe of the Kororofa. 
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