The lower females attend to domestic duties.
They are very vain and talkative, very capricious in their temper, and when angry vent their passion upon the female slaves, over whom they rule despotically.
The men's dress differs but little from that of the negroes, except that they all wear the turban, universally made of white cotton cloth.

Those who have long beards display them with pride and satisfaction, as denoting an Arab ancestry.

"If any one circumstance," says Mr.Park, "excited amongst the Moors favourable thoughts towards my own person, it was my beard, which was now grown to an enormous length, and was always beheld with approbation or envy.

I believe, in my conscience, they thought it too good a beard for a Christian." The great desert of Jarra bounds Ludamar on the north.

This vast ocean of sand is almost destitute of inhabitants.