VOYAGE TO SENEGAL. 
lowe(î witîiîn : tîie two ends are stopped up, and a longitudinal 
îîole is cut in the side. They strike it with two sticks, and the 
stroFîg and acute sound which it sends forth, is heard in calm 
weather at a great distance, and is considered as the signal of 
slarnr. Another kind is made of hght wood, hollowed like the 
iormer, but the ends of which are covered with goat or sheep- 
skins, dried and lightly stretciied by cords. Some of these drums 
are six or eight feet high, by two or three in diameter; and they 
occasionally have at their ends rows of sharks' teeth or pieces of 
copper, which produce a tolerably loud tinkling. 
These people have likew ise two kinds of stringed instruments^ 
one of which is a sort of guitar, and the other resembles in 
shape a 1^ elsh harp, but is only two feet high. The strings are 
made of the libres of a plant combined with the hair of ele- 
phants' tails. The women and children in their amusements pro- 
duce a sound from gourds, in which they inclose some dry seeds. 
At Sherbro the natives reckon amonsst their musical instru- 
Bients a reed pipe pierced with four holes, and a trumpet made 
of an elephant's tooth. 
The chief food of the people is rice, w^iich they boil after it 
is dried, and season it with palm-oil, or w ith a strong sauce made 
from fish or meat, or from poultry or vegetables simmered to- 
gether, and to which they add spices, pepper^ and palm-oil. 
They eat very little meat, but what they do consume, they pre- 
fer smoked or boiled; tiiey are^ however, good cooks, and pre- 
pare their aliments in a very delicate manner. The men and 
women do not eat together, and they drink only water; they make 
but two meals a day, one at ten in the morning, and the other 
at sunset. The men, however, \i ho are in easy circumstances, 
generally add another meal very early in the morning, which has 
been prepared over night by their favourite woman. 
Tliere are no other professions known amongst them thm 
those of carpenteVs, smiths, and makers of musical instruments. 
They are very active and clever in their labour, particularly so 
considering the imperfection of their tools, in each fannly they 
spin and weave their linen, and make their own clothes ; the 
women spin and card the cottoii, and the men weave and sew. 
Their dress is both simple and convenient : the boys and girls 
wear nothino- but the tuiUuns.^e, which is a thin band of linen 
passed between the thighs. The females are distinguislied by 
the manner in which they wear it, as they have a cord round 
their waist, in which they tuck the tuutungee, and leave the ends 
hanging down before and behind; they likewise carry round 
the loins a belt composed of several rows of seeds. The boys 
bring one of the enjds of the tuntungee in front; they twist the 
rest round them, smd let the other end hang down behind. Thty 
