The floors were of sand, and the walls of mud roughly plastered, and showing every where the marks of the only trowel used in the country--the fingers of the right hand.

There are no windows to any of the houses, but some rooms have a small hole in the ceiling, or high up the wall.
Near the house was the principal mosque, to which the sultan and the Christian party went every Friday, as a matter of course, and every other day they found it necessary to appear there once or twice.

It is a low building, having a shed projecting over the door, which, being raised on a platform, is entered by a few steps.

A small turret, intended to be square and perpendicular, is erected for the Mouadden to call to prayers.

One of the great lounges is on the seat in front of the mosque, and every morning and evening they are full of idle people, who converse on the state of the markets, and on their own private affairs, or in a fearful whisper canvass the sultan's conduct.
In Mourzouk there are sixteen mosques, which are covered in, but some of them are very small.