FEMALE SLAVES. 
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four inches broad. Some pretty designs are engraved on 
them. 
The female slaves of rich masters have gold orna- 
ments about their necks ; instead of wearing ear-rings as in 
the environs of the Senegal, they have little plates in the 
form of a necklace. A few days after my arrival at Tim- 
buctoo I fell in with a negro, who was parading about the 
streets two women, whom J recollected to have been fellow- 
passengers with me on board the canoe. These women 
were not young, but their master, to give them the appear- 
ance of an age better suited to the market, had dressed them 
well. They wore fine white pagnes, large gold ear-rings, 
and each had two or three necklaces of the same metal. 
When I passed them, they looked at me, and smiled. They 
did not appear in the least mortified at being exhibited iu 
the streets for sale, but manifested an indificrence which I 
could easily enough account for, by the state of degradation 
to which they had been reduced and their total ignorance 
of the natural rights of mankind. They thought that things 
should be so, and that they had come into this world to be 
bought and sold. 
The negroes of the Diriman Malaka and Kissoor 
villages, situated on the banks of the river, come to Tim- 
buctoo in their canoes. They bring to that market slaves, 
ivory, dried fish, earthen pots, and various other articles, 
which they exchange for glass trinkets, amber, coral and 
salt. 
To the south of Timbuctoo there is a country called 
Ginbala, which extends far inland. The inhabitants are, 
as 1 was told, all Mahometans. They seldom come to 
Timbuctoo on account of the Tooariks, whom they dread. 
They are very industrious, and raise crops of millet and 
rice ; they are hospitable to strangers, and have numerous 
herds of horned cattle and flocks of sheep and goats. They 
* grow cotton, with which they manufacture stuffs for cloth- 
