THE WESTERN COAST. 
plays considerable energy, as their fidelity is in- 
corruptible, and their affection to their friends on- 
ly equalled by their implacable resentment against 
their enemies. They never forget a favour or an- 
injury, and transmit their family feuds from ge- 
neration to generation. When any person is slain 
in a quarrel, his eldest son procures his father's 
sandals, which he wears once a year, on the an- 
niversary of the murder, till he can avenge his 
death. They trade with Europeans in rice, goats, 
poultry, wax and honey, and, in their transac- 
tions, employ a Mandingo factor, who appropri- 
ates a part of the purchase, which is termed 
cheating money, to himself, which he receives 
when the Feloop is gone. In those parts of the 
country, where any ravages have been committed 
by Europeans, they never give quarter to a white 
man. 
The Bissagoes or Bijugas inhabit a chain of low 
islands, which lie off the Rio Grande. They are 
tall, resolute, and robust, and adorn their houses 
with the scalps of their enemies. Impatient of 
slavery, they murder themselves upon receiving an 
affront ; intrepid in war, they are believed to be 
sprung from the terrible Giagas or Jagas. They 
are extremely ingenious, and easily learn whatever 
they are taught. On Boulama, or rather Bulama, 
which lies m the mouth of the Rio Grande, and is 
enumerated among the group of the Bissagoes, a 
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