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fifteen horses, and Guinea corn pounded with shea 
butter. 
Amongst the articles of manufacture, the country 
cloth deserves the first notice. Throughout the town 
there are not less than two hundred looms in ope- 
ration. The cloth is seldom made broader than three 
inches, and these bands are afterwards sewed together 
to the required size. The bands are sometimes made 
sixty yards long. Of the cloth thus manufactured, 
tobes, and all their apparel, are made. The cloth is 
sometimes white, more generally blue, striped with 
gray and red. The dyes are indigo and camwood. 
Camwood is powdered in a large mortar : three women, 
provided with pestles, beating in regular succession. 
When reduced to a fine powder and mixed with clay, 
it is used as a dye for the body. Red seems to be, 
under any circumstances, considered ornamental to 
the person. No iron pots were seen, but earthen 
vessels for cooking of various sizes. 
In the rambles of Dr. Stanger and Mr. Schon through 
the town, they observed a place roofed in, filled with 
people; some of them were soon discovered to be 
slaves*, and a conversation was begun with the slave- 
dealer. He spoke the Haussa language, showed no 
* At tlie slave-market there was a lai-ge sheep for sale ; its legs 
were remai'kably long. It was from the Haussa country, and was 
covered with brownish sleeky hair— long, particularly about the 
neck, back, and feet. Head small, nose prominent, ears very 
pendulous. 
