squaline

Updated: May 5, 2025

This head-gear of office made of pine-apple fibre Tuckey says grass costs ten shillings; it is worn by the kinglets, who now distribute it to all the lieges whose fortunes exceed some fifty dollars. Most of the Squaline villagers appeared to be women, the men being engaged in making money elsewhere.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2