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JOURNEY FROM BOUSSA TO KANO. 
morning, and is called Ivoko. They have a pudding made of 
ground millet, boiled in the ley of wood ashes, which gives a red 
colour; this is always eaten with fat or stewed meat, fish, or fowl. 
They always stew or grill their meat : when we have it in any 
quantity it is half grilled and smoked, to preserve until it is wanted 
to be used. Boiled beans made up in papers of a pound or a half 
pound each, and wrapped in leaves, sold for two cowries each, and 
called waki. Beans dried in the sun sold at one cowrie a handful. 
Small balls of boiled rice, mixed with rice flower, called Dundakaria, 
a cowrie a piece, mixed with water, and serves as meat and drink. 
Small balls of rice, mixed with honey and pepper, called Bakaroo, 
sold at five cowries each. Small balls made from bean flowers, fried 
in fat, like a bunch of grapes. Their intoxicating draughts are the 
palm wine called roa bum, bouza, and aquadent, very much adul- 
terated and mixed with pepper. 
At daylight the whole household arise : the women begin to 
clean the house, the men to wash from head to foot ; the women 
and children are then washed in water, in which the leaf of a bush 
has been boiled called Bambarnia : when this is done, breakfast of 
cocoa is served out, every one having their separate dish, the 
women and children eating together. After breakfast the women 
and children rub themselves over with the pounded red wood 
and a little grease, which lightens the darkness of the black skin. 
A score or patch of the red powder is put on some place where it 
will show to the best advantage. The eyes are blacked with khol. 
The mistress and the better looking females stain their teeth and 
the inside of the lips of a yellow colour with gora, the flower of 
the tobacco plant, and the bark of a root : the outer part of the 
lips, hair, and eye-brows, are stained with shuni, or prepared 
indigo. Then the women who attend the market prepare their 
wares for sale, and when ready go. The elderly women prepare, 
clean, and spin cotton at home and cook the victuals ; the younger 
