TIMBUCTOO. f9 comes from Bengala, and is cdWedjuUba. The sleeves of the caftan are as wide as those of the shirt ; the breast of it is fastened with buttons, in the Moorish style, but larger. The juliba has sleeves as wide as the caftan. When he is seated, all the sleeves are turned up over the shoulder *•, so that his arms are bare, and the air is admitted to his body.

Upon his turban, on the forehead, is a ball of silk, like a pear; one of the distinctions of royalty. He wears, also, a close red skull-cap, like the Moors of Tetuan, and two sashes, one over each shoulder, such as the Moors wear round the waist; they are rather cords than sashes, and are very large ; half a pound of silk is used in one of them. The subjects wear but one ; they are either red, yellow, or blue, made at Fas. He wears, like his subjects, a sash round the waist, also made at Fas; of these there are two kinds,—one of leather, with a gold buckle in front, like those of the soldiers in Barbary ; the other of silk, like those of the Moorish merchants. He wears (as do the subjects) breeches made in the Moorish fashion, of cotton in summer, made at Timbuctoo, and of woollen in winter, brouglit ready made from Fas. His shoes are distinguished by a piece of red leather, in front of the leg, abodt three inches 8 It is not the cotton cloth which comes from Bengal that is named Juliba but the fashion or the cut of it.

** The Moorish fashion.