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TINTALOUSIAN COQUETRY. 
is good, he puts the forefinger of his right hand 
into the clasped palm of his left, and so, as he 
pronounces the thing good, nagari, he turns his 
imprisoned finger round within the closed left 
hand. When he says there are many persons, he 
clasps together the fingers of his left hand, and 
forms a good English fist, holding the hand thumb 
upwards. He then strikes, with the palm of his 
right hand, the fist of his left hand, held in that 
particular position. This sign also represents a 
more indelicate idea, and is used in the same way 
on the coast. 
The women, from the shepherdess to the prin- 
cess, of Tintalous, are as fond of the bustle as 
European dames; but the important difference is, 
it is the natural bustle which they here delight to 
exhibit to the admiring male population. If a 
woman be called to, going off to the well for 
water, she does not turn round to see who is call- 
ing, but immediately draws her frock tight round 
her form, and imparts to it a most agitated and 
unnatural swinging motion, to the great satisfaction 
of the admiring lookers-on. Thus we see how the 
coquettes of London and Paris meet at opposite 
poles with these of the Sahara and Central Africa. 
Additional applications were made to En-JNToor 
by my colleagues, to go respectively to Bilma and to 
Zinder — Dr. Barth wishing to go on with Zan- 
gheema — but without effect. The old Sheikh re- 
mained firm in his refusals : Zangheema, however, 
