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TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
form of face than either the SerrawoUies, Man- 
dingoes, or Joloifs. They are extremely neat 
in their persons and dress, and are very fond of 
amber, coral, and glass beads, of different co- 
lours, with which they adorn or bedeck their 
heads, necks, wrists, and ancles profusely; gold 
and silver, too, are often formed into small but- 
tons, which are intermixed with the former on 
the head, and into rings and chains worn on the 
wrists and ancles. They always wear a veil 
thrown loosely over the head : this is manufac- 
tured by themselves from cotton, and is intended 
to imitate thin muslin, at which they have not 
by any means made a bad attempt. The other 
parts of their dress are precisely the same as that 
already described to be worn by the inhabitants 
of Kayaye, and, with few exceptions of silk and 
printed cotton which they obtain from the coast, 
are entirely of their own manufacture. They 
are exceedingly fond of perfumes of every kind, 
particularly musk, attar of roses, or lavender, but 
they can seldom procure these, and therefore 
substitute cloves, which they pound into pow- 
der, and mix up with a kernel, having something 
the flavour of a Tonquin bean, which they like- 
wise reduce to powder, and, with a little gum- 
water, form it into beads about the size of a 
common garden pea. These they string and 
hang round the neck ; they sometimes string 
