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PRICE OF EN-NOC-r's DAUGHTERS. 
them. The women, of course, left in this way, and 
unrestrained by any high moral motives, take as 
many lovers as they dare, or can secretly dispose of. 
It appears that En-Noor always disapproved of this 
strange system, and swore he would never marry a 
wife, because he should be obliged to go to another 
town to reside there, and so be exposed to having an 
inferior position, the authorities of the town of his 
wife pretending to exercise jurisdiction over him. 
All his women have ever been slaves. His highness 
is now living amidst his daughters and their child- 
ren — the men who married them being all away in 
their own native countries. A daughter of En- 
jNToor costs ten camels, and this is considered a very 
high price for a woman. With two or three camels, 
a woman manages to support herself and children. 
If the husbands of En-Noor's daughters be ever so 
poor, he never gives them anything but a little food. 
They must come and reside in his town. His high- 
ness passes all his evenings amidst this circle of 
women — his female slaves, his daughters, and grand- 
daughters. 
The population of Gouber and Maradee together 
may be about 1500. 
Maradee, capital of Maradee, and residence of the 
Siriki. 
Jinubakai is the second division of the country, 
inhabited wholly by the pagans or gia-drinkers 
(beer-drinkers) ; not, therefore, Mahometans. 
Gouber (Gubar), is the name of the country, of 
