This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...and draperies of the Egyptian frescoes. Among their finer tissues one deserves special attention; it is a luxurious stuff, used for shawls or turbans, and woven with an uneven surface resembling our honeycombed towelling. Among the artisans we can trace vestiges of a division into companies. Masons and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...and draperies of the Egyptian frescoes. Among their finer tissues one deserves special attention; it is a luxurious stuff, used for shawls or turbans, and woven with an uneven surface resembling our honeycombed towelling. Among the artisans we can trace vestiges of a division into companies. Masons and blacksmiths alike are furnished by certain families, the trades descending from father to son. Both occupations recognise the supreme authority of one of their number, who takes his place among those personages of the town who deliberate and control public affairs. Masonry is man's work here, while in the negro countries it is the women who build the houses. While Senegalese and Sudanese lean towards blue as the prevailing tint of their garments, the Songhois show a preference for white, like the Nubians; and rice, not millet, is their staple food. Their kuss-kuss is not taken from calabashes, but is served in cups of baked clay similar in every point to those in the scenes of repast depicted upon the Egyptian tombs. The various forms of their numerous potteries also recall the antique specimens of the same land; and they have real wooden bedsteads instead of the lump of earth, covered with skins, that serves the negro as a place of repose.... The last day at Jenne! I have been employed since morning in receiving processions of the friends I have slowly gained among her inhabitants. Oh! very slowly. Our first acquaintance was not made without much hesitation, suspicion even. They could not understand this European, the first they had ever seen, who was neither soldier nor trader. My incessant and entirely unexpected questions bewildered them. They looked at one another and laughed as the interpreter transmitted them, and were obviously...
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