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were articles of particular luxury. Everything inside 
the building is kept remarkably clean and dry. In 
the economy of their dwellings, the higher classes 
observe the same protective system as the Attkh, 
having the huts of subordinates and slaves, and often a 
clay wall, surrounding them, so that in the event of an 
attack, their persons or houses are less exposed. 
The streets are very irregular and numerous; the 
principal market is held in the Attah’s or northern 
division, on a clear level space, shaded by numerous 
trees. It is arranged according to the directions of the 
chiefs, all articles being properly classed and exposed for 
sale on the ground, or on mats. There was a great 
variety of vegetables, yams, ground-nuts, palm-nuts, 
cassada, kola-nuts, plantains, Indian-corn, sugar-cane, 
cocoa-nuts, rice, shea butter, calabash pumpions; various 
native manufactures of cotton, for tobes and body 
clothes; red and blue cotton and grass threads, raw 
cotton of very short staple ; native made swords, knives, 
spears, and little calabashes of dye powders, tephrosia, 
oxides of iron and camwood, as also brass and ivory 
ornaments for the body, and pipes of clay, or iron very 
neatly made. 
Cowries fCyprea monetaj are the only medium of 
circulation ; but much of the business is done by barter- 
ing such articles as each may requii’e. When the 
value of anything is below that of a cowry, they 
substitute as an equivalent four or five ground-nuts, 
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