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RESIDENCE AT SOCCATOO AND MAGARIA. 
with a round low crown. Some who do not affect great sanctity 
or learning wear check tobes and blue turbans over the fore- 
head, with the end hanging down behind ; the poorer, a white 
check tobe, white cap and trousers, and sandals. Some are con- 
tent with the straw hat only, but all wear a sword, which is carried 
over the left shoulder. The women have a cloth striped with blue, 
white, and red, falling as low as the ankles ; silver rings in the ear, 
about an inch and a half in diameter, bracelets of horn, glass, 
brass, copper, and silver, according to the quality of the wearer ; 
round the neck, beads, and strings of glass, or coral ; round the 
ankles, brass, copper, or silver, and sometimes rings on the toes as 
well as fingers. The fashionable ornament is a Spanish dollar 
soldered fast to a ring. The poor women have pewter, brass, and 
copper rings. The hair is generally turned up like a crest on the 
top of the head, with something like a pig’s tail hanging down from 
each extremity, a little before the ears. 
Some of the Fellata women have the hair frizzed out at the 
ends, all round the head ; others have the hair plaited in four small 
plaits, going round the head like a riband or bandeau. This, and 
all the plaited parts, are well smeared over with indigo or shumri. 
The razor is applied to smooth all uneven places, and give a high 
and fine arch to the forehead ; they thin the eye-brows to a fine 
line, which, with the eye-lashes, are rubbed over with pounded 
lead ore, and done by drawing a small pen that has been dipped 
in this ore. The teeth are then dyed with the gora nut, and 
a root of a shining red colour ; the hands and feet, the toe and 
finger nails, are stained red with henna. A lady thus equipped 
is fit to appear in the best society. The looking-glass is a circular 
piece of metal, about an inch and a half in diameter, set in a small 
skin box, and is often applied to. The young girls of the better 
sort of people dress much in the same manner as their mothers, 
after they arrive at the age of nine or ten ; before that, they have 
