so TIMBUCTOO.

wide, and eight long, embroidered with silk and gold.

When he sits in his apartment he wears a dagger with a gold hilt, which hangs on his right side : when he goes out, his attendants carry his musket, bow, arrows, and lance.

His subjects dress in the same manner, excepting the distinctions of royalty ; viz. the pear, the sashes on the shoulders, and the embroidered leather on the shoes.

The sultana wears a caftan, open in front from top to bottom, under this a slip of cotton like the kings, an Indian shawl over the shoulders, which ties behind, and a silk handkerchief about her head. Other women dress in the same manner. They wear no drawers. The poorest women are always clothed. They never show their bosom. The men and women wear ear-rings. The general expence of a woman's dress is from two ducats to thirty.' Their shoes are red, and are brought from Marocco. Their arms and ancles are adorned with bracelets. The poor have them of brass ; the rich, of gold. The rich ornament their heads with cowries. The poor have but one bracelet on the leg, and one on the arm ; the rich, two. They also wear gold rings upon their fingers. They have no pearls or precious stones. The women do not wear veils.

> Equal to from two to thirty Mexico dollars.

They are manufactured at Marocco.