The dress of the women here, differs materially from that of the moorish females, and their appearance and smell are far from agreeable.

They plait their hair in thick bobbins, which hang over their foreheads, nearly as low down as the eye-brows, and are there joined at the bottom, as far round to each side as the temples.

The hair is so profusely covered with oil, that it drops down over the face and clothes.

This is dried up, by sprinkling it with plenty of a preparation made of a plant resembling wild lavender, cloves, and one or two more species pounded into powder, and called atria; it forms a brown dirty-looking paste, and combined with perspiration and the flying sand, becomes in a few days far from savoury.

The back hair is less disgusting, as it is plaited into a long tress on each side, and is brought to hang over the shoulders; from these tresses, ornaments of silver or of coral are suspended.
Black wool is frequently worked in with their black locks, to make them appear longer.