The burying places are outside the walls, and are of considerable extent.

In lieu of stones, small mud embankments are formed round the graves, which are ornamented with shreds of cloth tied to small sticks, with broken pots, and sometimes ostrich eggs.
One of the burying places is for slaves, who are laid very little below the surface, and in some places the sand has been so carried away by the wind, as to expose their skeletons to view.

Owing to the want of wood, no coffins are used.

The bodies are merely wrapped in a mat, or linen cloth, and covered with palm branches, over which the earth is thrown.

When the branches decay, the earth falls in, and the graves are easily known by being concave, instead of convex.