330 THE EXPLORATION OF THE NIGER of the village ; generally, however, the unfortunate girl dies in her chains.

" Such are the manners and customs of the Mussulmans, and God alone knows what their women are reallylike.

" Samory used to kill both the guilty parties, but Tieba, his enemy and neighbour, professed an amiable kind of WOMEN OF SAY.

philosophy on the subject of the weaker sex and the ways of women. When Samory was conquered by Tieba, the chief auxiliaries of the latter were the nomad Diulas who were strangers in the land. These Diulas had come to the district by way of Sikasso, where they had met with women of free and easy manners, and had been driven by the force of circumstances to remain amongst them, adopting their ways. Now it generally happens amongst the negroes, that those who have travelled much and seen