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hands and feet not large, the features regular and 
pleasing, and their manners particularly mild and 
agreeable. The eyelids of the women and children are 
coloured with antimony, which gives a look of softness. 
The faces of this tribe are generally marked with ellip- 
tical incisions, extending from the temples to the chin. 
In saluting a stranger, they stoop almost to the earth, 
throwing dust on their foreheads several times ; the 
females in this humiliating practice, sprinkle the dust 
on the breast. The men all wore clean white tobes, 
nicely worked over the chest and sleeves, with red and 
blue devices, and were generally armed with daggers, 
knives, and a broad two-edged sword, or bow and 
arrows. The women had the usual cotton body-cloth, 
but tbeir innate modesty and gentleness, made them 
appear very prepossessing. 
Notwithstanding the poverty of the soil, mostly fer- 
ruginous earth, they contrive to cultivate Indian-corn, 
yams, and rice abundantly. This latter was brought 
on board in small grass bags, containing from three 
quarters of a pound to two pounds, and was sold at a 
very low price, in cow’ries or articles of exchange, 
certainly not more than one half-penny the pound. 
They also brought dried buffalo’s flesh, fish, shea butter, 
tobacco of a mild flavour in large flat rolls, and 
which they called Taba. Blue and red dye-balls of 
Tephrosia and camwood; Uoji’s, or native whips of 
hippopotamus skin; carthern pipe heads; chalk in 
small squares, prepared from incinerated bones, used 
