general not so tall as the men, but in other respects resemble them very much. They appear in their natures as if created expressly for the country which they inhabit, as no human beings can endure thirst, hunger, and fatigues better than they. When they rise in the morning, their first employment is to milk their camels, after which the whole village, old and young, the women excepted, assemble to attend prayers and their other religious devotions, which they perform in the following manner: they first strip themselves nearly naked, and then with dry sand rub every part of their bodies, after which, bending their bodies nearly to the ground, they cry aloud “Allah Hookiber”--“Allah Shedah Mahomed!”--at night, before retiring to rest, they again assemble to worship in the same manner.

The cloth with which the Arabs cover their tents they manufacture out of camel’s hair, which work is performed by the women in the following manner: having first spun the hair into thread, by means of a hand spindle, and it having gone through the operation of doubling and twisting, they drive into the ground two rows of pegs, placing them about three feet apart; the warp is then attached to the pegs and the filling is then carried by a shuttle over the thread of the warp, and under another, the women, in the mean time beating up the threads with a flat piece of stick. Every tent is occupied by a seperate family who have no other furniture but a mat, which serves them for a bed, a small brass kettle