®8 TIMBUCTOO.

slave is worth ten, fifteen, or twenty ducats of ve shillings eachj at Fas, they are worth from sixty to a hundred ducats : females are the dearest. Slaves are most valuable about twelve years old. They have fish-oil for lamps, but use neither wax nor tallow for candles. The fish-oil is a great article of trade, and is brought from the neighbourhood'' of the sea by Genawa" to Housa, and thence to Timbuctoo ; dearer at Timbuctoo than at Housa, and dearer at Housa than at Genawa.

DRESS.

The sultan wears a white turban of very fine muslin, the ends of which are embroidered with gold, and brought to the front; this turban comes from Bengala.

He wears a loose white cotton shirt, with sleeves long and wide, open at the breast ; unlike that of the Arabs, it reaches to the small of the leg ; over this a caftan of red woollen cloth, of the same length ; red is generally esteemed. The shirt (Jamtja) is made at Timbuctoo, but the caftan comes from Fas, ready made ; over the caftan is worn a short cotton waistcoat, striped white, red, and blue ; this Probably from the coast of Guinea, with which Housa carries on an extensive trade.

i. e. Guinea ; Genawa being the Arabic name for the coast of Guinea.

* i.e. Bengal.

A cqftarii or coat, with wide sleeves, no collar, but that buttons all down before.