The women differ very little from their sisters of the Eastern Gold Coast. You never see beauty beyond the _beaute du diable_ and the naive and piquant plainness which one admires in a pug-pup. The forms are unsupported, and the figure falls away at the hips. They retain the savage fashion of coiffure shown in Cameron's 'Across Africa,' training their wool to bunches, tufts, and horns. The latter is the favourite; the pigtails, which stand stiff upright, and are whipped round like pricks of tobacco, may number half a dozen: one, however, is the common style, and the size is said to be determined by a delicate consideration. Opposed to this is the highly civilised _atufu_, 'kankey,' or bussle, whose origin is disputed. Some say that it prevents the long cloth clinging to the lower limbs, others that it comes from a modest wish to conceal the forms; some make it a jockey-saddle for the baby, others a mere exaggeration of personal development, an attempt to make Aphrodite a Callipyge. I hold that it arose, in the mysterious hands of 'Fashion,' from the knot which secures the body-cloth, and which men wear in front or by the side. Usually this bussle is a mere bundle of cloth; on dress occasions it is a pad or cushion. I had some trouble to buy the specimen, which Cameron exhibited in London. Men and women are vastly given to 'chaffing' and to nicknaming. Every child, even in the royal houses, takes a first name after the week-day [Footnote: Men. Women. Adwo (Monday-born) ... Kajo (Cuddjo) ... Adwoa. Bena (Tuesday-born) ... Kwabina ... Abiena. Wuku (Wednesday-born) ... Kwako ... Akudea. Tan (Thursday-born) ... Kwao ... Ya (Yawa). Afio (Friday-born) ... Kofi (Coffee) ... Afua. Amu (Saturday-born) ... Kwamina ... Amma. Ayisi (Sunday-born) ... Kwasi ... Akosua (Akwasiba).