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he must pay her stipulated dower. Abusive language is a sufficient ground of divorce, but adultery is not. The dower is the price originally agreed upon with the father ; and if it has been already paid (which it seldom is), she has no further claim upon the husband, though put away without sufficient ground. Her clothes, jewels, &c. given to her by her relations are her own property. A fatlier generally gives the daughter in jewels, &c. a present double the value of that given him by the husband. A man can have but one wife, but may keep concubines.

Seduction and adultery are not cognisable by law. The law says, " a woman's flesh is her own, she may do with it what she pleases."

Prostitutes are common. A man may marry his niece, but not his daughter.

The people of Timbuctoo are not circumcised.

TRADE.

Timbuctoo is the great emporium for all the country of the blacks, and even for Marocco and Alexandria.

The principal articles of merchandise are tobacco, kameemas \ beads of all colours for necklaces, and cowries, which are bought at Fas by the pound. Small Dutch looking glasses, some Kameema is the Arabic word for the linen called plattilias. They are worth 50 Mexico dollars each, at Timbuctoo.

8 Called, in Amsterdam, Velt Spiegels, and in Timbuctoa, Murr'uih dejuah.