. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 3K I. Chap. 6. o/Nigriria, or North-Guinea. 65 - TIm ir h learning ^anjlvamty 1- 5, 111 [h 01 re lo- :a, ng )nc gl' I'c- the md :icki Ctrcumci^ val-/""' off, tho" I be -hoc cdcS fejliv»l. of incc and here tlie Btads. >H, lich hort- aiul vtral igat God .\rly Trlytf. igllt, tlicir iiion, at
. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 3K I. Chap. 6. o/Nigriria, or North-Guinea. 65 - TIm ir h learning ^anjlvamty 1- 5, 111 [h 01 re lo- :a, ng )nc gl' I'c- the md :icki Ctrcumci^ val-/""' off, tho" I be -hoc cdcS fejliv»l. of incc and here tlie Btads. >H, lich hort- aiul vtral igat God .\rly Trlytf. igllt, tlicir iiion, at is, inus, Aid- Ely. , that they nfire. a or wafh their their heads, lunds, and feet, pretending to clcanfe themielves from fin. When a man has lud to do with his wife, or committed any crime, he is to walhiiisbody allover, before he enters the Moj'-pie, or to pronounce thefe words reckoned the moft (acred in their law. La ilia UleuLi Mahamelo Darazoidla, fignifying, nere is but one God, and Maho- met is his mejfinger. Thefe words they believe have the fame virtue as bathing. Tiie wo- men never enter their Ah/ques, being look'd upon as incapable of ever entring paradife, becaufe, accoriling to tiicm, only created for the propagation ol' human race. Yet they I'.iake tlic Sula, or pray in tiieir houfes ; am' on IruLiys repair to the to pr ly and weep over the graves of tlieir re- 1 tions, being then generally clothed in blue, 1 hich is the mourning of the Mtijpdmaas, a» the Mdbomeln)iscM themfelves. They haveBAT^nor- many other fuperlliriotis, no kf^ unaccounta- v^'V*^ bic, and too tedious to be inferred heie. When the Marabouti of the ];, who, i^niran:i^ for the mod part, arc not very llriit obkr- vers of the /I'.cjran , are aik'd wh nee they derive their ablutions, circurncifion, and other ceremonies in ufe, they no other anfwer, but that they have been prac- tis'd by them and their anccllors time out of mind. I have fhown how much thefe Afi t
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