The females here are allowed greater liberty than those of Tripoli, and are more kindly treated.

Though so much better used than those of Barbary, their life is still a state of slavery.

A man never ventures to speak of his women; is reproached, if he spends much time in their company, never eats with them; but is waited upon at his meals, and fanned by them while he sleeps.

Yet these poor beings, never having known the sweets of liberty, are, in spite of their humiliation, comparatively happy.
The authority of parents over their children is very great; some fathers of the better class do not allow their sons even to eat or sit down in their presence, until they become men; the poorer orders are less strict.
There are no written records of events amongst the Fezzaners, and their traditions are so disfigured, and so strangely mingled with religious and superstitious falsehoods, that no confidence can be placed in them.

Yet the natives themselves look with particular respect on a man capable of talking of the people of the olden time.
Several scriptural traditions are selected and believed.