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and mixed with milk; furro-furrocoo is the same kind of ball 
mixed with water. About 10 A. M. they have rice boiled, which 
they eat with a little melted butter. After this they pay visits, or 
lounge in the shade, hear the news, say prayers, count their beads, 
which employ them till sunset, when they have a meal of pudding, 
with a little stewed meat and gravy, or a few small fish; they 
then retire to rest. 
During the spring and harvest the proprietors of estates ride 
out to their different slave villages to look after their grain, cotton, 
indigo, &c. ; or to the place where they have their cattle. The 
occupations of the poorer class, who are not engaged in trade, are 
much the same as those of their superiors; their food is somewhat 
different, being principally confined to furro-furrocoo. The wives 
of the principal people, of whom they all appear to keep up the 
number allowed by the Koran, which is four, with concubines as 
many as they can get or are able to keep, are occupied in directing 
the female slaves in their work, cooking their husband’s food, 
cleaning and spinning cotton, and dressing their hair, teeth, eye- 
brows and eye-lashes, which take up no little time. They also 
take charge of sending the female slaves to market to sell their 
spare cotton, grain, furro-furrocoo, millet, cakes fried in butter, fried 
fish, which are usually caught by the younger male slaves; in re- 
ceiving or paying visits, for they are great gossips. They are 
allowed more liberty than the generality of Mahometan women. 
The dress of the men is a red cap, with a blue tassel of silk, 
a white turban, part of which, or a fold, shades the brow and eyes ; 
another fold is taken over the nose, which covers mouth and chin, 
hanging down on the breast ; a white shirt, close at the breast and 
short in the skirts, a large white tobe, and white trousers, trimmed 
with red or green silk, and a pair of sandals or boots : this is 
the dress of the greater part of the wealthy inhabitants. When 
travelling, they wear, over the turban, a broad-brimmed straw hat, 
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