Footnote 55:[ (return) ] Cowries are called El Uda, and are sold in Santa Cruz and in South Barbary, at twenty Mexico dollars per quintal.
Footnote 56:[ (return) ] Called Ujuh.
Footnote 57:[ (return) ] Probably from the coast of Guinea, with which Housa carries on an extensive trade.
Footnote 58:[ (return) ] i.e. Guinea; Genawa being the Arabic name for the coast of Guinea.
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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. [59] 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 [60] of red woollen cloth, of the same length; red is generally esteemed. The shirt (kumja) 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 comes from Bengala, and is called juliba. [61] 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 [62], so that his arms are bare, and the air is admitted to his body.
Footnote 59:[ (return) ] i.e. Bengal.
Footnote 60:[ (return) ] A caftan, or coat, with wide sleeves, no collar, but that buttons all down before.
Footnote 61:[ (return) ] It is not the cotton cloth which comes from Bengal that is named Juliba, but the fashion or the cut of it.
Footnote 62:[ (return) ] The Moorish fashion.