TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
purchase of inebriating liquors. The dress of 
the latter also is neither so good nor so cleanly 
as that of the former, which is, almost inva- 
riably, white or blue. The Sonikeys are careless 
about their dress or persons, and what with 
smoking, drinking, and dirt, they are the most 
filthy set we ever saw. 
We observed hanging on a stake, outside the 
walls of the town, a dress composed of the bark 
of a tree torn into small shreds, and formed so 
as to cover the whole body of the person wear- 
ing it, who is a sort of bugbear, called Mum- 
bo Junibo, that occasionally visits all the Man- 
dingo towns, for the purpose of keeping the 
married women in order. I have been told that 
the husband who has occasion to find fault with 
one of his wives, for here every man has as many 
as his circumstances will admit, either puts on 
this dress himself, or gets one of his friends to 
do it, and having made known his intended visit 
to the town, by shrieking and howling in the 
woods near it, arrives after sunset at the as- 
sembly place, where all the inhabitants are 
obliged to meet him, with music, singing, and 
dancing, which continues for some hours, and 
terminates by his seizing the unfortunate wo- 
man, and flogging her most unmercifully in 
presence of the whole assembly, who only laugh 
at this horrid performance. We have never had 
