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slippers ; they have them of various colours. Their shoe- 
makers use no lasts they get thin leather from Timbuctoo^ 
whither it is brought by the Moors from Morocco. I saw no 
tanners in Jenne. 
The most elegant head-dress worn in this place is a red 
cap, round which a large piece of muslin is rolled in the 
form of a turban. Men of inferior rank^ like the saracolets, 
wear caps made in the country. The dress of the women 
consists of a coussabe with a pagne under it. I saw several 
females with sandals. They plat their hair and wear neck- 
laces of glass, amber, coral, and gold ear-rings. Some also 
wear about the neck plates of that metal which are made in 
the country. I saw some with nose-rings ; they all have 
their noses pierced, and those who are not rich enough to buy 
a ring have a piece of pink silk in its stead. They wear 
silver bracelets of a round form, and their ancles are encir- 
cled by flat rings of plated iron, four inches broad, which 
cover them completely. 
The price of an ordinary coussabe of cloth of native ma- 
nufacture is two thousand cowries ; a pair of trowsers costs 
one thousand, and a pair of slippers three hundred. They are 
to be had either cheaper or dearer, according to the variety 
of form or colour. The Moors have magazines well supplied 
with European merchandise; such as white Guinea cloth, 
(for they have but little blue) calico, scarlet cloth, paper, 
muskets, powder, hardware, needles, silk, and sulphur. They 
sell all these things wholesale. They have also white sugar and 
tea; but it is only the very rich who can afford such luxuries. 
I was pleased to find at Jennd that one might use a pocket- 
handkerchief without being ridiculed; for the inhabitants them- 
selves use it, whereas, in the countries through which I had 
previously passed, it would have been dangerous to suffer such 
a thing to be seen. A cake of salt, of the dimensions which 
I have described in a former part of this volume, costs ten, 
fifteen, or even twenty thousand cowries, according to the 
