The shirts being long, many wear no other covering.
When leaving their houses, and walking to the market or gardens, a _jereed_ or _aba_ is thrown round them, and a red cap, or a neatly quilted cotton white one, completes the dress.

On Fridays, they perhaps add a turban, and appear in yellow slippers.

In the gardens, men and women wear large broad-brimmed straw hats, to defend their eyes from the sun, and sandals made from the leaves and fibres of the palm trees.

Very young children go entirely naked, those who are older have a shirt, many are quite bare-headed, and in that state exposed all day to the sun and flies.

The men have but little beard, which they keep closely clipped.