The men almost all read and write a little, but in every thing else they are very dull and heavy; their affections are cold and selfish, and a kind of general indifference to the common incidents of life, mark all their actions.

They are neither prone to sudden anger, nor at all revengeful.

In Mourzouk the men drink a great quantity of _lackbi,_ or a drink called _busa,_ which is prepared from the dates, and is very intoxicating.

The men are good-humoured drunkards, and when friends assemble in the evening, the ordinary amusement is mere drinking; but sometimes a _kadanka_ (singing girl) is sent for.

The Arabs practise hospitality generally; but among the Fezzaners that virtue does not exist, they are, however, very attentive and obsequious to those in whose power they are, or who can repay them tenfold for their pretended disinterestedness.