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cous and sangleh for the guests, who are sure to be nume- 
rous. The women collect round the bride, singing her 
praises and amusing themselves the whole of the day; 1 
have seen some of them dance. 
The hassanes are not obliged to conceal themselves 
from their new relations; they meet as usual both before and 
after the marriage : their feasts are also more gay and bril- 
liant, and they admit the guehues to them. Whatever may be 
the difference between the ceremonial however, the woman 
and her husband are in all cases subjected to the parents of 
the latter. 
When the marriage is celebrated, the husband may take 
away his wife forthwith if he has a camel; in that case the 
mother-in-law supplies the equipage for the beast, the cradle, 
and the carpet which lines it; she adorns the daughter with 
her finest ornaments, gives her a mat to lie upon, and a sheep- 
skin for a coverlid; the husband leads the camel, and keeps 
his face covered till he is out of the camp. If he has no ca- 
mel, he leaves his wife in the camp till he can procure one, 
for it would be a terrible disgrace if the woman were 
brought home to her husband's camp on a bullock. Some- 
times he settles in his wife's camp, sends for his flocks and 
herds, and ceases to hide himself. 
It often happens that the husband and wife cannot 
agree, or are desirous of a separation ; one of them then 
quarrels with the other, and they part without having re- 
course to the marabouts who brought them together. The 
one who wishes for a divorce makes a present to the other. 
If there are children, the boys go with the father, and the 
girls remain with their mother ; if she is pregnant at the 
time, and brings forth a boy, it is sent to the father who has 
it nursed by a zenague. 
When the husband dies, his wife goes into mourning 
and wears it four months and ten days ; during this time, 
she puts on her worst apparel, receiving nobody into her 
