The place where the former sultans were buried, is a plain near the town; their graves are only distinguished from those of other people, by having a larger proportion of broken pots scattered about them.

It is a custom for the relations of the deceased to visit, and occasionally to recite a prayer over the grave, or to repeat a verse of the Koran.
Children never pass within sight of the tombs of their parents, without stopping to pay this grateful tribute of respect to their memory.

Animals are never buried, but thrown on mounds outside the walls, and there left.

The excessive heat soon dries up all their moisture, and prevents their becoming offensive; the hair remains on them, so that they appear like preserved skins.
The men of Mourzouk of the better sort, dress nearly like the people of Tripoli.

The lower orders wear a large shirt of white or blue cotton, with long loose sleeves, trousers of the same, and sandals of camel's hide.